Man dancing: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man wearing a purple or blue suit, captured mid-motion with one arm raised and his body twisted in a dance step. This version features a medium-light skin tone, showing a person caught in the rhythm of a ballroom or disco dance floor.

Usage Context

Used to signal excitement, a night out, or a sense of carefree celebration. It is the go-to character for suggesting plans, reacting to a great song, or adding flair to a casual message. It is frequently grouped with 💃 to represent a dance partner or a party atmosphere.

History

The man dancing emoji arrived in Unicode 9.0 in 2016. It was developed to address the gender imbalance in early emoji sets, which previously only featured a lone woman in a red dress. Modifier support for skin tones followed shortly after, allowing for better representation across global populations.

Details

Glyph

🕺🏼

Unicode

U+1F57A U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f57a_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD7A;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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