Handball Emoji

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Handball Emoji

🤾Person playing handballU+1F93EReady to copy

40 items. Tap one to copy it.

Handball emoji 3

Throw and catch 3

Goal, clock and kit 6

Next to it in Unicode 3

The other handballs 4

Typed throwers 5

Handball lines 4

Handball combos 12

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How it works

The handball emoji is Person playing handball, U+1F93E, new in Emoji 3.0. Unicode names the character HANDBALL and lists it under sport symbols, one code point after water polo. A man and a woman followed in Emoji 4.0.

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Seven a side, three steps

By Wikipedia, handball is a team sport of seven players a side, six on court and a goalkeeper, who pass a ball by hand and throw it into the other team’s goal. A player holding the ball may take three steps, or stand three seconds, then must shoot, pass or dribble.

Thrown six ways

CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files the emoji under throw, toss, chuck, hurl, lob and pitch. The last five lead to no other emoji. Emojipedia records the player drawn mid-air, ready to throw.

  • Unicode has no handball ball. U+1F93E is the only character named for the game, and it is the player.

Questions and answers

What does the handball emoji mean?

The team sport, by its search words: handball, sport, athletics, ball, throw and catch. The word has a second sense, the football offence, and a third, the wall game. Each has a tile under The other handballs.

Is there a woman playing handball emoji?

Yes: Woman playing handball, the player joined to Female sign, U+1F93E U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. Man playing handball has Male sign, U+2642, in its place, and each takes five skin tones.

Is the handball emoji American handball?

Its name is plain HANDBALL, with no word for either game. By Wikipedia, American handball is played by hitting a small rubber ball against a wall, and the emoji is drawn throwing. Wall handball is the tile for the wall game.

All 40 items

Handball emoji 3

  • Man playing handball U+1F93E U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. The player, a zero width joiner, Male sign and a variation selector: four code points. Emoji 4.0.
  • Person playing handball U+1F93E. The handball emoji. Its Unicode character name is HANDBALL. Filed under handball, throw, catch and athletics. Emoji 3.0.
  • Woman playing handball U+1F93E U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. The player, a zero width joiner, Female sign and a variation selector: four code points. Emoji 4.0.

Throw and catch 3

  • Palm up hand U+1FAF4. Filed under catch and hold. Emoji 14.0.
  • Person bouncing ball U+26F9 U+FE0F. The other player filed under throw. Also filed under dribble. Emoji 0.7.
  • Running shirt U+1F3BD. The only other emoji filed under athletics. Emoji 0.6.

Goal, clock and kit 6

  • Goal net U+1F945. Filed under goal and net. Emoji 3.0.
  • Keycap 7 U+0037 U+FE0F U+20E3. Seven players a side, by Wikipedia. Filed under seven. Emoji 0.6.
  • Raised hand U+270B. Filed under hand and stop. Emoji 0.6.
  • Running shoe U+1F45F. Filed under sneaker and running. Emoji 0.6.
  • Sports medal U+1F3C5. Filed under medal and winner. Emoji 1.0.
  • Stopwatch U+23F1 U+FE0F. For the two halves. Filed under clock and time. Emoji 1.0.
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Next to it in Unicode 3

  • Diving mask U+1F93F. The code point after the handball player. Emoji 12.0.
  • Person juggling U+1F939. In the same run of sport symbols. Filed under juggle and skill. Emoji 3.0.
  • Person playing water polo U+1F93D. The code point before the handball player. Emoji 3.0.

The other handballs 4

  • Brick U+1F9F1. For the wall game. Filed under brick and wall. Emoji 11.0.
  • Football handball Soccer ball, then raised hand. In football, by Wiktionary, to handball is to touch the ball illegally with the hand or arm.
  • Soccer ball U+26BD. For the other handball, the football offence. Filed under football and soccer. Emoji 0.6.
  • Wall handball Raised hand, then brick. By Wikipedia, American handball is hit by hand against a wall.

Typed throwers 5

  • 1-2-3 °\o Three steps, then the throw.
  • °\o Ball held high behind the head: a degree sign for the ball, a backslash for the arm.
  • °\o [\o/] A shot against the keeper.
  • [\o/] The goalkeeper, arms wide, between two posts.
  • o/° The ball leaves the hand.

Handball lines 4

  • chuck it, hurl it, lob it, toss it Four of the emoji’s own search words.
  • stay out of the six By Wikipedia only the defending goalkeeper may touch the floor within six metres of the goal.
  • three steps, then let it fly By Wikipedia a player holding the ball may take only three steps.
  • two halves of thirty A standard match, by Wikipedia.

Handball combos 12

  • Beach handball Beach with umbrella, then person playing handball.
  • Counterattack Dashing away, then person playing handball.
  • Fixture Spiral calendar, then person playing handball.
  • Half time Person playing handball, then stopwatch.
  • Indoor court Stadium, then person playing handball.
  • Keeper says no Goal net, then raised hand.
  • Leap and throw Person playing handball, then goal net.
  • Medal game Person playing handball, then sports medal.
  • Pass and move Woman playing handball, then man playing handball.
  • Three steps Keycap 3, then footprints, then person playing handball.
  • Throwing arm Flexed biceps, then person playing handball.
  • Whole side Person playing handball, seven times.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). The character name HANDBALL is from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); the heading Sport symbols and the code points on either side are from the Unicode names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt). The rules of the game (seven a side, three steps, three seconds, the goal area, two periods of 30 minutes, indoor and beach play) are as Wikipedia records them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handball, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated; the wall game is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_handball, restated. The football sense of the word is Wiktionary’s (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/handball, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. How the emoji is drawn is as Emojipedia records it (https://emojipedia.org/person-playing-handball), restated. The typed faces, the lines and the combo names are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Emojipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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