Man walking: light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a man with light skin shown in profile, mid-stride as if walking. This icon depicts a person moving forward with a steady, casual gait.

Usage Context

Used to describe commuting, taking a walk, or heading toward a destination. It is frequently employed to signal that someone is on their way, out for a hike, or simply busy moving around. It often appears alongside other transit-related icons like 🏃 or 🚶 to clarify the speed of movement.

History

The base walking figure was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The capability to modify this emoji with skin tone modifiers was added in 2015, following the industry-wide push for more diverse representations of human figures in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

🚶🏻‍♂

Unicode

U+1F6B6 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6b6_1f3fb_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEB6;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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