Man walking facing right: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-skinned man depicted in mid-stride, moving toward the right. This figure shows the classic silhouette of a person casually walking, with arms bent and legs positioned in a natural gait.
Usage Context
Used to describe commuting, taking a stroll, or heading toward a specific destination. People often use it to indicate they are leaving a conversation or physically traveling somewhere. It functions as a partner to faster-paced movement icons like 🏃 or can be paired with directional arrows to emphasize a path forward.
History
The base walking emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The system for applying skin tones, known as Fitzpatrick modifiers, was added in 2015 to allow for better representation of human diversity across digital platforms, evolving from the original generic yellow characters.
Details
Glyph
🚶🏿♂➡
Unicode
U+1F6B6 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f6b6_1f3ff_200d_2642_200d_27a1:
HTML Entity
����‍♂‍➡
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
Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.
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