People & Body · Emoji 15.1
Person Walking Facing Right Emoji
Means walking, heading out, or moving on from something. Sent to say you’re leaving, on your way, or done with a conversation and moving forward with your day.
It’s a simple figure mid-stride, facing right, part of a 2023 update that let walking, running, and kneeling emoji point in either direction for more natural sentence flow.
- Unicode
- U+1F6B6 U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :person_
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 🚶➡️ Person Walking Facing Right emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Person 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 person 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
Person 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
Person Walking Facing Right emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :person_walking_facing_right:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F6B6.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🚶➡️ Person Walking Facing Right emoji
No picker to hand? The person walking facing right can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person Walking Facing Right emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 4. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
07 — Combinations
Person Walking Facing Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
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 Facing Right
Code: U+1F6B6 U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :person_walking_facing_right:
Means walking, heading out, or moving on from something.
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 Facing Right emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 15.1, the person walking facing right has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 3.
Same character every time — U+1F6B6 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.
Person Walking Facing Right was approved as U+1F6B6 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