Woman bowing: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium-light skin kneeling and bowing deeply with her head toward the ground. The posture indicates a formal show of respect, deep humility, or an earnest request for forgiveness.
Usage Context
This gesture is used to express sincerity during an apology, to beg for a favor, or to signify that the sender is showing profound respect. It is frequently sent alongside 🙏 to emphasize a sense of desperation or genuine remorse in text conversations.
History
Bowing, or 'ojigi', is a fundamental social behavior in Japanese culture, serving various functions from simple greetings to formal expressions of penitence. This emoji was added to the Unicode standard to bring these specific cultural physical cues into digital communication, allowing for more nuanced emotional expression beyond simple text.
Details
Glyph
🙇🏼♀
Unicode
U+1F647 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f647_1f3fc_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
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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