Woman kneeling: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium-dark skin depicted in a kneeling position, with her knees on the ground and her torso upright. The character is represented in a neutral, everyday posture suitable for a wide range of tasks.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to indicate physical tasks like cleaning, gardening, or prayer, but it is also commonly used in digital shorthand to express humility, exhaustion, or being 'down' for an activity. It is often used in combination with objects like 🧹 or alongside 🙏 when someone is asking for a favor or expressing gratitude.
History
The base kneeling person emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to provide a gender-neutral option for physical positioning. The female-specific variant, along with the various skin tone modifiers like this one, was introduced shortly after to allow users to better represent their own identities in messaging apps and social media platforms.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏾♀
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FE U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fe_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
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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