man walking: medium skin tone
Unicode: 1F6B6 1F3FD 200D 2642 FE0F
Description
A man riding a bicycle, with light brown skin, facing right. He has short hair and is wearing a t-shirt and shorts. This is a ZWJ sequence combining 'person bicycling', 'medium skin tone', 'zero width joiner', 'male sign', and 'variation selector-16'.
Group:
People & Body > person-activity
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents activity, health, commuting, or leisure. The specific skin tone does not alter the core emotion but adds to the specificity of the representation.
Backstory
The 'person bicycling' emoji (1F6B6) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The skin tone modifiers (1F3FB-1F3FF) were added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, allowing for greater representation of diverse skin tones. The gender specific variations for this emoji were made possible through ZWJ sequences in later Unicode versions (e.g., Unicode 11.0 in 2018 for gender-specific variations of 'person bicycling').
Usage Examples
- Talking about exercise: 'Going for a bike ride later! 🚴🏽♂️'
- Commuting to work: 'Biking to the office today. 🚴🏽♂️'
- Discussing sustainable transport: 'Try biking instead of driving! 🚴🏽♂️'
- Leisure activities: 'Weekend cycling trips are the best. 🚴🏽♂️'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used for outdoor activities, exercise, environmental consciousness, or urban commuting.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage to Western culture, often associated with healthy lifestyles, sustainable transportation, or recreational biking.