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Meaning & usage
What does the Foot emoji mean?
A bare foot seen from the side, for walking, kicking and standing.
Plain and literal. It belongs to walking, blisters and step counts, and it stays out of the way otherwise.
How to use 🦶 naturally
Step counts, sore feet after a long day and anything on foot.
Hand gestures can be direct and efficient, which makes them useful in quick replies. Their tone varies across cultures and age groups, so a short accompanying phrase can prevent ambiguity.
From standard to slang
The history of 🦶
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Foot was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A bare foot in profile, added in 2018 with the leg, bone and tooth in a batch of body parts. Skin tones apply to it, as they do to the hands.
- Today
How its use evolved
Step counts, sore feet after a long day and anything on foot.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🦶 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Twenty thousand steps today 🦶
Walked the whole way home 🦶
New boots, regret 🦶
When to use it
Using 🦶 clearly
Step counts, sore feet after a long day and anything on foot. It lands as foot emoji or feet emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the foot emoji
What does 🦶 mean in a text message?
A bare foot seen from the side, for walking, kicking and standing. Plain and literal. It belongs to walking, blisters and step counts, and it stays out of the way otherwise.
Is 🦶 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are foot emoji, feet emoji, 🦶 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🦶 look different on another device?
U+1F9B6 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the foot emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🦶 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the foot emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🦶 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🦶 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F9B6 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🦶 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦶 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F9B6 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9B6} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A6%B6 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9B6
- Category
- Hands & Gestures
- Also known as
- foot emojifeet emoji🦶 meaning
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