🧍♂️Man Standing Emoji
Generally, it just means a man is standing. It can be used to express a feeling of being still, waiting, or a bit awkward.
The 🧍♂️ emoji shows a man standing upright.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :man_standing:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🧍♂️ Man Standing emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as standing man emoji.
Man Standing emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9CD. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Man Standing emoji skin tones
🧍♂️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Man Standing emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man_standing:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F9CD.
How to type the 🧍♂️ Man Standing emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Man Standing emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Man Standing emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man standing for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🧍♂️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🧍♂️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the man standing and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🧍♂️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the man standing lands changes how it is taken.
🧍♂️ vs 💇♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Standing
Code: U+1F9CD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2019
Shortcode: :man_standing:
Generally, it just means a man is standing.
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.
Where the 🧍♂️ Man Standing emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 12.0, the man standing has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 7.
Same character every time — U+1F9CD U+200D U+2642 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 Standing was approved as U+1F9CD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.