Person standing: light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a person standing upright, facing forward, with a light skin tone. The design features a neutral pose with arms resting at the sides, designed to represent a person in a stationary position.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to convey that someone is waiting, physically present, or simply 'just standing there.' It is a common choice for describing awkward social situations or being left out of a conversation, often used in conjunction with the 😶 face or 🧍 to emphasize a sense of stillness.

History

Added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0, the standing person was introduced to fill a gap in human posture representation. Before this, users relied on walking or running icons like 🚶 to represent people, which lacked a way to show someone at a complete standstill.

Details

Glyph

🧍🏻

Unicode

U+1F9CD U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9cd_1f3fb:

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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