What ๐ถโโ๏ธ means
A man walking, used for strolls, heading somewhere on foot, or walking away.
It fits a walk to clear the head, hikes, and daily steps. With ๐จ it is a quiet exit from a conversation, and a row of ๐ถโโ๏ธ๐ถโโ๏ธ๐ถโโ๏ธ can mean pacing or a long trek. Some send it as โon my wayโ when they leave on foot.
Facts
Man walking ๐ถโโ๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐ถ person walking 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 :walking_man: or :man_walking:. People also look for it with words like โambleโ, โgaitโ, โhikeโ, or โmanโ.
Made of
๐ถ+โ๏ธ=๐ถโโ๏ธ
Timeline
- 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
- 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 4.0