Person in suit levitating

A figure in a dark suit and hat, hovering above the ground. Online it reads as slick, mysterious, or quietly leaving a situation, as if gliding out of the room.

People post it for a smooth exit (“and with that, I'm out 🕴️”), for shady business energy, or to look cool and unbothered. Its stiff, odd pose also makes it a deadpan reaction when something strange or awkward happens.

It began as a Webdings symbol based on the rude-boy mascot of the 2 Tone ska record label.

Facts

Person in suit levitating 🕴️ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :business_suit_levitating: or :person_in_suit_levitating:. People also look for it with words like “business”, “levitating”, “person”, or “suit”.

Timeline

1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
2. 2016Skin tones added (Emoji 4.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Unicode 7.0