🧍‍♂️

Man Standing Emoji 🧍‍♂️

What 🧍‍♂️ means

A full body length portrayal of a man with short hair, a pair of trousers, and a tee-shirt, standing with his arms resting by either side of his stature while he stares ahead (technically at the reader).

The 🧍‍♂️ Man Standing emoji signifies standing, of course, but it can hold both a literal and a metaphorical meaning. It can suggest a sense of taking a stance for something or just standing upright for a good stretch.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're posting a picture and you're adding an inspirational quote that goes somewhere along the lines of "standing up for something", you can use 🧍‍♂️ in that caption.
You can also use 🧍‍♂️ to show that you're waiting for someone or something. For example, if you're heading out with your buddies and one of them is always late, you can spam that friend with 🧍‍♂️ as a way of hauntingly telling him/her that you're waiting for him.
Use 🧍‍♂️ for memes that involve the action of standing, like - "Why they all be standing like this 🧍‍♂️", something like that.
If you take pride in your hardships and you're standing on your own two feet without depending on anyone or anything, you can use 🧍‍♂️ in your social media profile name.
If you're posting a powerful post or a message about standing up for what one believes in, or taking a stance, or standing one's own ground, etc, use 🧍‍♂️ in that context.
You can also use multiple of the 🧍‍♂️ emojis to indicate a queue, like "🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️".

Other Names

🧍‍♂️ Standing
🧍‍♂️ Stationary
🧍‍♂️ No Movement
🧍‍♂️ Stay Upright
🧍‍♂️ Waiting
🧍‍♂️ Wondering
🧍‍♂️ Standing By Yourself
🧍‍♂️ Attention
🧍‍♂️ Alone
🧍‍♂️ Single Man

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-activity
Codepoints: U+1F9CD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :man_standing: Slack · Discord
Keywords: man, stand, standing
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.