Person walking

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Shortcode
:walking:
Shortcode
:person_walking:
Unicode
U+1F6B6
HTML
🚶
CSS
\1F6B6
JavaScript
"\u{1F6B6}"
URL
%F0%9F%9A%B6

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What ๐Ÿšถ means

A person walking with a steady stride, standing for walking, going somewhere, or leaving. The figure faces left by default.

People use it for a walk, a commute on foot, or step counts. It also means โ€œI'm outโ€ or walking away from a bad situation, often with ๐Ÿ’จ. In stories it moves the action along: โ€œso I ๐Ÿšถ to the storeโ€.

Facts

Person walking ๐Ÿšถ 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 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 5 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :walking: or :person_walking:. People also look for it with words like โ€œambleโ€, โ€œgaitโ€, โ€œhikeโ€, or โ€œmanโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
  2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)
  3. 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™€๏ธ
  4. 20233 new emoji built from it (Emoji 15.1)๐Ÿšถโ€โžก๏ธ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™€๏ธโ€โžก๏ธ๐Ÿšถโ€โ™‚๏ธโ€โžก๏ธ

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. person walking, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. person walking, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. person walking, Google (Noto) design from 20192019

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. person walking, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. person walking, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  3. person walking, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

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

people & body ยท Unicode 6.0