Woman kneeling facing right: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A woman positioned on her knees, oriented toward the right, rendered with a medium skin tone. This complex sequence uses a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) to combine a kneeling person, a gender modifier, and a directional arrow to lock the orientation.

Usage Context

Used to represent someone resting, praying, or waiting in a specific direction. Because of its complex construction, it is often paired with other directional icons or person-based emojis like 🧍🏽‍♂️ or 🚶🏽‍♀️ to describe physical activity or spatial positioning.

History

While the base kneeling figure was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, the ability to combine gender, direction, and skin tone modifiers arrived shortly after to bring parity to mobile messaging platforms that needed more granular control over character personas.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏽‍♀‍➡

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640 U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fd_200d_2640_200d_27a1:

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.

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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