Man climbing: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A man with dark skin wearing a climbing harness, depicted mid-ascent on a textured rock face. His body is positioned as if he is actively gripping a hold to pull himself higher.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to represent rock climbing, hiking, or general physical effort. It serves as a visual shorthand for overcoming obstacles or reaching a difficult goal, often paired with the mountain or rock emojis to set the scene.
History
Climber emojis were added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the push for more diverse human representations. The dark skin tone variant followed shortly after in the Emoji 4.0 update, allowing users to select skin tones that better reflect their own appearance during digital communication.
Details
Glyph
🧗🏿♂
Unicode
U+1F9D7 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9d7_1f3ff_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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