Person bowing: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A person with a dark skin tone hunched over with their upper body parallel to the ground. Their hands are placed flat on the floor, indicating a deep, respectful bow or a posture of complete submission.
Usage Context
This gesture is a common non-verbal way to express a sincere apology, deep gratitude, or a request for a significant favor. It is frequently used in digital messaging to signify 'sorry' or to show humble respect. It functions similarly to the praying hands 🙏 but leans more toward showing remorse or deference.
History
The bowing person was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to reflect the 'dogeza' posture prevalent in Japanese culture, where one bows low to show extreme respect or to apologize for a major social transgression. The skin tone variants were introduced later in 2015 to allow for better representation across global user bases.
Details
Glyph
🙇🏿
Unicode
U+1F647 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f647_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-gesture
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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