Leg: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A side-profile view of a human leg bent at the knee, rendered in a medium-dark skin tone. It highlights the calf muscle, the knee joint, and the foot extending outward as if preparing for movement.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss physical activity, sports, exercise, or injury recovery. It serves as a visual shorthand for kicking, running, or simply referring to lower-body anatomy. Users often pair it with 🏃🏾 to talk about cardio or ⚽ when describing soccer-related actions.

History

The base leg emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. The skin tone variations were implemented shortly thereafter using the Unicode modifier system, allowing for greater representation across the wide spectrum of human diversity in digital messaging.

Details

Glyph

🦵🏾

Unicode

U+1F9B5 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9b5_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDB5;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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