People & Body · Emoji 12.0
🧍Person Standing Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is standing. People use it to show they’re waiting, or to express a simple state of being upright.
The 🧍 emoji is a person standing upright.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CD
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :standing_
person: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧍 Person Standing emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Person Standing emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9CD — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your person standing 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 Standing 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 Standing 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 :standing_person:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9CD.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧍 Person Standing emoji
No picker to hand? The person standing can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person Standing emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person standing 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 Standing emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person standing 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
One code point, several readings — where the person standing lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🧍 vs 💇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Standing
Code: U+1F9CD · added 2019
Shortcode: :standing_person:
Generally, it just means someone is standing.
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 Standing emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9CD 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 Standing was approved as U+1F9CD and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ