Person walking: light skin tone Emoji

People

A full-body figure of a person mid-stride, depicted with a light skin tone. The figure is shown from the side, with arms and legs positioned to suggest a casual, steady pace of movement.

Usage Context

Used to describe commuting, taking a break, going for a stroll, or simply being out and about. It is frequently sent to signal that someone is heading somewhere or is currently on the move, often accompanied by location-based emojis like 📍 or transit icons like 🚌.

History

The person walking emoji arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The option to modify the figure with specific skin tones was introduced in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update, allowing for more diverse representation of human movement and activity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🚶🏻

Unicode

U+1F6B6 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6b6_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEB6;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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