person in lotus position: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F9D8 1F3FE
Description
An adult person standing, with their arms down at their sides or slightly bent. This specific emoji represents a person with dark skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > person-resting
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, indicating a general human presence or individuality. The particular skin tone variant adds specificity without emotional connotation.
Backstory
This emoji is part of the comprehensive set of 'person' emojis introduced to allow for gender-neutral representation and later extended with various skin tones (Fitzpatrick scale) in Unicode 8.0 (2015). The 'person' emoji itself was available earlier, but skin tone modifiers greatly enhanced its versatility.
Usage Examples
- General representation of a person: 'I saw a person walking down the street. 🧍🏾'
- Referring to an individual in a diverse group: 'Our team includes people from all backgrounds. 👩🏽💻👨🏻💻🧍🏾'
- When specifying an appearance in a story or message: 'The protagonist of my story is a tall person 🧍🏾 with a kind smile.'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Often used to represent an individual in a neutral context, or when the user wants to signify someone with a darker skin tone.
East Asian culture:
Similar neutral usage, sometimes used to specify a character's appearance in fiction or to represent diversity.