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🧗♂️Man Climbing Emoji
Tagged climb, climber and climbing, 🧗♂️ man climbing sits in Unicode's Activities group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 5.0 (2017) at U+1F9D7 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F.
What 🧗♂️ man climbing means
What a person is doing: walking, running, dancing, climbing, getting a haircut. These carry status updates more than emotion - gym, commute, night out. The 2019 accessibility additions sit here, including the white cane and both wheelchairs, and 2023 added mirrored facing-right versions of the walking, running and kneeling figures.
Unicode tags this one climb, climber and climbing and files it under People & Body → Activities.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🧗♂️ is built
This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.
- 🧗U+1F9D7person climbing
- ·U+200DZero-width joiner
- ♂U+2642male sign
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9D7 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧗‍♂️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🧗‍♂️ | |
| CSS | \1F9D7\200D\2642\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D7}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F9D7\U0000200D\U00002642\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDD7\u200D\u2642\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f9d7}\u{200d}\u{2642}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9D7}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9D7}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%97%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 97 E2 80 8D E2 99 82 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDD7 200D 2642 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+nl+KAjeKZgu+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 129495 8205 9794 65039 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 5.0 (2017) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🧗♂️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
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How to type 🧗♂️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “man climbing”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “climb”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9d7and Enter. - HTML — paste
🧗‍♂️.
How 🧗♂️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧗♂️Apple
- 🧗♂️Segoe
- 🧗♂️Noto
- 🧗♂️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧗♂️ man climbing emoji mean?+
🧗♂️ is the man climbing emoji, tagged climb, climber and climbing. What a person is doing: walking, running, dancing, climbing, getting a haircut. These carry status updates more than emotion - gym, commute, night out. The 2019 accessibility additions sit here, including the white cane and both wheelchairs, and 2023 added mirrored facing-right versions of the walking, running and kneeling figures.
What is the Unicode code for 🧗♂️?+
man climbing is U+1F9D7 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🧗‍♂️, in CSS \1F9D7\200D\2642\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D7}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧗♂️ emoji added?+
man climbing got its emoji presentation in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Activities in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 5.0 (2017)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧗♂️ man climbing.