Man kneeling facing right: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A man with dark skin depicted in a kneeling position, oriented to face toward the right. This figure shows the person resting on their knees, often signifying humility, physical exertion, or waiting.
Usage Context
Used to represent someone taking a knee, resting, or getting into a lower position. It is frequently used in discussions about sports, moments of prayer or reflection, or simply to show a character sitting on the floor. It is often combined with other people emojis like 🧍🏿♂️ to show a change in posture or activity level.
History
This emoji was created using the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, a technical method that stitches together multiple existing characters to form a single, complex image. This approach was adopted by the Unicode Consortium to increase diversity and represent a wider range of human postures without needing to create thousands of individual, static emoji files.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏿♂➡
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3ff_200d_2642_200d_27a1:
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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