Person walking: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A figure depicted in mid-stride, captured in a profile view to emphasize the act of walking. This version displays a medium-light skin tone, representing a specific demographic variation within the broader set of movement-based human emojis.
Usage Context
Used to signal that someone is on their way, out for a stroll, or simply moving from one place to another. It serves as a visual shorthand for being physically active or 'on the go.' It is frequently grouped with related transit or movement icons like 🏃 or 🚶♂️ to clarify the speed or intent of the journey.
History
The base walking figure was introduced as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The capability to modify skin tones arrived in 2015 with Unicode 8.0, allowing users to apply diverse modifiers to human figures to better reflect global populations in messaging applications.
Details
Glyph
🚶🏼
Unicode
U+1F6B6 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f6b6_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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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
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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