Man dancing: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man in a suit performing a dance move with one arm raised and his body in a dynamic pose, rendered with a dark skin tone. The figure is captured in the middle of a spin or a rhythmic step, suggesting high energy and movement.

Usage Context

Widely used to signal that someone is going out, hitting the club, or celebrating a win. It is the go-to choice for invitations, party announcements, or simply showing off a great mood. It pairs perfectly with music-related icons like 🎶 or 💃 when coordinating group plans.

History

The base man dancing emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. The dark skin tone variant followed shortly after as part of the implementation of the Fitzpatrick scale, allowing users to customize the character to better represent their own appearance in digital conversations.

Details

Glyph

🕺🏿

Unicode

U+1F57A U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f57a_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD7A;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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