What ๐งโโ๏ธ means
A man standing straight with his arms at his sides, used for standing, waiting, and blank, awkward reactions.
It is a common reply in comment sections, where ๐งโโ๏ธ alone means โI have nothing to sayโ or โme, just standing hereโ. It also fits waiting for someone who is late, or standing in a long queue.
Facts
Man standing ๐งโโ๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person standing and โ๏ธ male sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :standing_man: or :man_standing:. People also look for it with words like โmanโ, โstandโ, or โstandingโ.
Made of
๐ง+โ๏ธ=๐งโโ๏ธ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2025
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.0