Man kneeling Emoji
People
A figure of a man positioned on both knees with his upper body upright. The character is depicted in a neutral, stable stance that suggests a moment of rest, supplication, or readiness.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to represent physical exhaustion, the act of bowing, or proposing a question. It is often utilized alongside the person kneeling or woman kneeling variants to denote specific gender identification during conversations about exercise, meditation, or kneeling for respect.
History
The kneeling man was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0. Its inclusion was a response to the push for greater gender diversity across human-centric pictographs, allowing users to express these specific poses with more granular identification.
Details
Glyph
🧎♂
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
��‍♂
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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