Person walking: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure depicted in mid-stride, captured in a profile view to emphasize the act of walking. This version displays a medium-light skin tone, representing a specific demographic variation within the broader set of movement-based human emojis.

Usage Context

Used to signal that someone is on their way, out for a stroll, or simply moving from one place to another. It serves as a visual shorthand for being physically active or 'on the go.' It is frequently grouped with related transit or movement icons like 🏃 or 🚶‍♂️ to clarify the speed or intent of the journey.

History

The base walking figure was introduced as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The capability to modify skin tones arrived in 2015 with Unicode 8.0, allowing users to apply diverse modifiers to human figures to better reflect global populations in messaging applications.

Details

Glyph

🚶🏼

Unicode

U+1F6B6 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f6b6_1f3fc:

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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