Man walking facing right: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a man with a medium-dark skin tone, shown in mid-stride while walking toward the right. He is rendered in a simple, generic outfit, capturing the motion of a person moving from one place to another.

Usage Context

This emoji serves as a shorthand for commuting, exercise, or simply heading out the door. It is frequently used to signal that someone is on their way, taking a break, or going for a hike. It is often paired with travel-related icons like 🚗 or location pins like 📍 to describe a journey.

History

While the basic walking man emoji was introduced to Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the ability to modify skin tones and gender was added later via the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences to improve representation. This specific version combines the base pedestrian character with directional markers that have evolved alongside mobile operating systems to better reflect movement across a screen.

Details

Glyph

🚶🏾‍♂‍➡

Unicode

U+1F6B6 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6b6_1f3fe_200d_2642_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEB6;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂‍➡

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

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