Man kneeling facing right: light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with a light skin tone shown in a kneeling position, facing toward the right side of the screen. The figure is depicted with his knees bent and body lowered to the ground.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to represent acts of submission, prayer, fatigue, or simply the physical action of crouching down. It serves as a gendered and skin-tone-specific version of the gender-neutral 🧎 emoji, allowing for more precise identity expression in digital messaging.
History
The base kneeling emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to increase inclusivity regarding body postures. The subsequent addition of gender and skin tone modifiers via ZWJ sequences followed the broader industry push to ensure that every user has access to a digital avatar that reflects their own physical characteristics.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏻♂➡
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fb_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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