Man standing: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A full-body depiction of a man standing upright with his arms at his sides, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. He maintains a neutral, upright posture without performing any specific action.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to signify waiting, stillness, or presence in a location. It is frequently employed in digital conversation to indicate that someone is 'just standing there' or to highlight a singular person in a group, often contrasted with more dynamic figures like 🏃 or 💃.

History

The standing person emoji was introduced in Unicode 12.0 in 2019 to provide a neutral human figure that avoided the implications of movement or gesture. The gender and skin tone modifiers were added as part of the broader effort to increase representation across all digital platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧍🏼‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9CD U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cd_1f3fc_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCD;&#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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