People & Body · Emoji 15.1
Man Running Facing Right Emoji
A man running to the right, same meaning as the plain running emoji: rushing, working out, or getting away from something. Just a gendered, directional variant.
Part of the 2023 wave of gender and direction specific running emoji, letting people be precise about who’s running and which way.
- Unicode
- U+1F3C3 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :man_
running_ facing_ right: - Skin tones
- Yes
Added in Emoji 15.1. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🏃♂️➡️ Man Running Facing Right emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Man Running Facing Right emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F3C3 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man running facing right looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Running Facing Right emoji skin tones
🏃♂️➡️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Man Running Facing Right emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man_running_facing_right:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F3C3.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🏃♂️➡️ Man Running Facing Right emoji
No picker to hand? The man running facing right can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Man Running Facing Right emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man running facing right as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 4 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
07 — Combinations
Man Running Facing Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man running facing right for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🏃♂️➡️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 🏃♂️➡️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
11 — Difference
🏃♂️➡️ vs 💇♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Running Facing Right
Code: U+1F3C3 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :man_running_facing_right:
A man running to the right, same meaning as the plain running emoji: rushing, working out, or getting away from something.
Unicode name: Man Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-getting-haircut:
It usually just means someone is getting a haircut or talking about hair.
12 — History
Where the 🏃♂️➡️ Man Running Facing Right emoji came from
It arrived with the 15.1 release of the standard, which dates the man running facing right to 2023.
Same character every time — U+1F3C3 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Man Running Facing Right was approved as U+1F3C3 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 15.1 (2023). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🏃♂️➡️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ