Leg: light skin tone Emoji

People

A side-profile view of a human leg bent at the knee, rendered with a light skin tone. The design captures the calf muscle and the foot in a static, flexed position.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss physical exercise, running, or injury recovery. People often pair it with sports-related icons like 👟 or 🏃🏻 to signal a workout or to joke about leg day at the gym.

History

The leg emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. It was introduced alongside a variety of other anatomical additions to provide more granular ways for users to describe human movement and specific body parts in casual messaging.

Details

Glyph

🦵🏻

Unicode

U+1F9B5 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9b5_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDB5;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory body-parts

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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