Man standing: light skin tone Emoji

People

A full-body figure of a man with light skin, shown standing upright with his arms resting naturally at his sides. The design features a neutral posture that focuses on the human form without suggesting any specific movement or action.

Usage Context

Used to describe someone who is waiting, present in a location, or simply hanging around. It is a go-to choice when you want to signal that you are standing in line, watching an event, or feeling like an observer. It is often used alongside 🧍‍♀️ to specify gender or with location markers to describe where someone is currently positioned.

History

This figure was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019. It was part of a major push to expand the range of human representations in emoji sets, moving away from simple head-and-shoulders portraits to full-body silhouettes that allow for more descriptive storytelling about human activity.

Details

Glyph

🧍🏻‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9CD U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cd_1f3fb_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCD;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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