People & Body · Emoji 15.1
Man Walking Facing Right Emoji
Means a man walking or heading somewhere, the male version of the walking figure. Sent the same way, mostly to say someone’s currently on his way over.
It’s the male figure from the 2023 directional update, showing a man mid-stride facing right to fit naturally into left-to-right sentences.
- Unicode
- U+1F6B6 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :man_
walking_ 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 Walking Facing Right emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Man Walking Facing Right emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F6B6 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your man walking 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 Walking 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 Walking Facing Right emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man_walking_facing_right:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the man walking facing right, code point U+1F6B6.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🚶♂️➡️ Man Walking Facing Right emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Man Walking Facing Right emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man walking 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 Walking Facing Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man walking 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 Walking Facing Right
Code: U+1F6B6 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :man_walking_facing_right:
Means a man walking or heading somewhere, the male version of the walking figure.
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 Walking Facing Right emoji came from
It arrived with the 15.1 release of the standard, which dates the man walking facing right to 2023.
Same character every time — U+1F6B6 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 Walking Facing Right was approved as U+1F6B6 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