Man kneeling: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a man with medium skin tone shown in a kneeling position, resting on his knees. The pose indicates a state of waiting, submission, exhaustion, or a grounded physical posture.

Usage Context

Used to represent someone taking a break, performing a religious act, or proposing marriage. It is frequently sent alongside 💍 to signify an engagement or 🙏 when expressing gratitude or prayer. It can also jokingly describe feeling worn out after a long day.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019 as part of a push to broaden the range of human activities and bodily positions available in the standard emoji set. It reflects the ongoing effort to make digital communication more inclusive by providing diverse skin tones and gender-specific poses for everyday physical actions.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏽‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fd_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♂

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.

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