man standing: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1F9CD 1F3FC 200D 2642 FE0F
Description
A man wearing a standing posture, usually depicted with knees bent and feet flat on the ground, often with arms hanging loosely or slightly bent. The specific skin tone modifier indicates a light-medium skin tone. The zero-width joiner (200D) connects the 'person standing' emoji with the 'male sign' and 'variation selector-16' to explicitly represent a man.
Group:
People & Body > person-activity
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, descriptive. Used to represent a male person in a standing position without conveying a specific emotion beyond that.
Backstory
The base 'person standing' emoji (1F9CD) was introduced in Unicode 10.0 (2017). The addition of skin tone modifiers (like 1F3FC) and gendered components (200D 2642 FE0F) allows for more specific and inclusive representations. This particular sequence creates a specific male standing person with a light-medium skin tone.
Usage Examples
- Indicating presence: 'A man is standing by the door. 🧍🏼♂️'
- Descriptive: 'He's a tall man. 🧍🏼♂️'
- Figurative: 'He stood his ground. 🧍🏼♂️'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used to represent a generic man, or to specify a person's gender when context requires.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage, often appearing in contexts like directional instructions ('stand here'), or as a simple male avatar.