Person standing: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A full-body silhouette of a person standing upright, facing forward with a neutral posture. This version displays a medium skin tone, representing a specific range of human complexions.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to indicate waiting, patience, or simply being present in a situation. It serves as a more neutral alternative to active emojis like 🏃 or 💃, focusing on a state of stillness rather than movement.

History

Added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0, the standing person was introduced to provide a gender-neutral option for people categories. It was part of a larger push to ensure more inclusive representation across the keyboard, moving away from prescriptive character archetypes.

Details

Glyph

🧍🏽

Unicode

U+1F9CD U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cd_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCD;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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