People & Body · Emoji 0.6
🚶Person Walking Emoji
Generally, the 🚶 emoji means someone or something is walking. It's a straightforward way to indicate movement or a pedestrian.
The 🚶 emoji represents a person walking.
- Unicode
- U+1F6B6
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :walking:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🚶 Person Walking emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
02 — Platforms
Person Walking emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the person walking as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Walking 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
Person Walking emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :walking:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the person walking, code point U+1F6B6.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🚶 Person Walking emoji
No picker to hand? The person walking can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person Walking emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person walking as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Person Walking emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person walking 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
Chat apps do not change U+1F6B6, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🚶 vs 💇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Walking
Code: U+1F6B6 · added 2010
Shortcode: :walking:
Generally, the 🚶 emoji means someone or something is walking.
Unicode name: Person Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 · added 2010
Shortcode: :haircut:
It usually just means someone is talking about getting their hair cut or is interested in hair/beauty.
12 — History
Where the 🚶 Person Walking emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F6B6 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🚶 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E733, KDDI au EB72, SoftBank E201.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person Walking was approved as U+1F6B6 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🚶 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ