Person Doing Cartwheel 🤸

Usage snapshot:

• Used in content written with the Common script; suitable for UI labels and body text.
• Appears in the Unicode block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs.

History & usage: The character depicts PERSON DOING CARTWHEEL. In the name tokens, PERSON signals a category of being, DOING marks ongoing action, and CARTWHEEL designates the activity. These tokens illustrate how names function to convey role, verb-like action, and a concrete image within orthographic descriptions. Shape or qualifier ideas may be inferred from the compound form, suggesting movement and display rather than a static sign, which helps typographers and editors decide when to use this symbol as a stand‑alone pictograph or within paired emoji sequences.

Usage contexts include scholarly dictionaries and grammars that document pictographs as cultural signs; educational primers that explain emoji semantics and gesture meanings; and scholarly editions or archival transcripts where accurate labeling of emoji as an illustrated token aids historical analysis. In paleography and typographic revivals, this sign can appear in period specimens to illustrate modern pictographs as part of a visual lexicon. It also helps digital archives describe emoji in metadata for search and accessibility, ensuring content is understandable in assistive contexts across platforms.

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