Person walking facing right: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure depicted in motion, captured mid-stride and angled toward the right. This specific version features a medium-light skin tone, representing a person calmly moving forward on foot.

Usage Context

Used to denote commuting, getting some exercise, or leaving a location. It serves as a shorthand for casual travel or a stroll through a neighborhood. People often combine it with 🏃 for a sense of urgency or 🚗 to compare transport methods.

History

Originally added to the Unicode standard as a simple silhouette, the pedestrian icon was later expanded with skin tone modifiers in 2015 to better represent diverse human populations. The right-facing orientation was standard for early directional icons in mobile navigation software.

Details

Glyph

🚶🏼‍➡

Unicode

U+1F6B6 U+1F3FC U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6b6_1f3fc_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEB6;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍➡

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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