Man standing Emoji

People

A full-body depiction of a man standing upright with his arms hanging naturally at his sides. The figure is rendered in a neutral, forward-facing stance, functioning as a direct gender-specific variation of the generic person standing icon.

Usage Context

Used to denote a person waiting, standing in line, or simply occupying physical space. It is frequently paired with location-based emojis or movement indicators to describe someone idling at a specific spot. It serves as a static counterpart to active emojis like 🏃‍♂️ or 🚶‍♂️.

History

The man standing emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0. Its introduction was a push to provide greater gender specificity across all human-figure emojis, moving away from the previously default male-presenting characters that were sometimes ambiguous in earlier internet messaging protocols.

Details

Glyph

🧍‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9CD U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cd_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCD;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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