🚶️ Person walking emoji
HTML
🚶
Unicode
U+1F6B6
What is 🚶️ called?
🚶️ is called the Person walking emoji.
Also known as walking person, pedestrian emoji, person on foot. These are readable descriptions of the action; the official name remains person walking.
What does 🚶️ mean?
🚶 is officially named person walking. It shows a person walking at an ordinary pace, representing travel on foot, a stroll, exercise, movement, leaving, or heading somewhere.
Use it for daily steps, commuting, hikes, dog walks, walking meetings, pedestrian travel, going out, or moving steadily toward a goal. The standard sequence has no encoded direction, even though many platform designs historically face left. Related choices include 🚶➡️ Person walking facing right and 🏃 Person running.
Other meanings
It can mean walking, a pedestrian, going on foot, a stroll, exercise, steps, commuting, hiking, leaving, approaching, progress, or taking a walk. Tone and surrounding words indicate whether the activity is literal or figurative.
Example Usage
I am walking home from the station 🚶
Ten-minute stroll before lunch 🚶
More details
Officially named person walking. Its code point is U+1F6B6. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0. It supports skin-tone modifiers; gendered forms use a ZWJ sequence while the base form is the neutral default.
Variants
Related emoji
Dog leash emojis
Escalator emojis
Pedestrian crossing emojis
Physical activities emojis
Visual description
A neutrally styled a full-body figure mid-stride with one foot forward and the arms naturally moving.
The ordinary stride differs from the stronger forward lean of running; exact visual direction may vary by platform. Clothing, colours, hair, and pose vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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