Woman bowing: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium skin tone bending forward at the waist with her hands placed flat on the floor in front of her. This represents a deep, formal bow performed while kneeling.
Usage Context
This gesture is used to express deep respect, sincere apology, or to beg for a favor. While it can convey general sorrow like 😔 or regret, it is most commonly associated with showing extreme humility or greeting someone with high status. It is often used to signal that the sender is 'bowing out' or asking for a significant request.
History
Bowing, or 'ojigi' in Japanese culture, is a fundamental form of etiquette for greetings and showing deference. The emoji was added to the Unicode standard to bring these traditional cultural gestures to digital messaging, following the widespread popularity of pictograms in early Japanese mobile carrier sets.
Details
Glyph
🙇🏽♀
Unicode
U+1F647 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f647_1f3fd_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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