Person walking facing right: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure depicted in motion, captured mid-stride and angled toward the right. This specific version features a medium-light skin tone, representing a person calmly moving forward on foot.

Usage Context

Used to denote commuting, getting some exercise, or leaving a location. It serves as a shorthand for casual travel or a stroll through a neighborhood. People often combine it with 🏃 for a sense of urgency or 🚗 to compare transport methods.

History

Originally added to the Unicode standard as a simple silhouette, the pedestrian icon was later expanded with skin tone modifiers in 2015 to better represent diverse human populations. The right-facing orientation was standard for early directional icons in mobile navigation software.

Details

Glyph

🚶🏼‍➡

Unicode

U+1F6B6 U+1F3FC U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6b6_1f3fc_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDEB6;&#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

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

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