Man kneeling: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with dark skin shown in a kneeling position. The figure is depicted from the side, resting on his knees with his upper body upright, similar to how someone might wait, rest, or pay respects.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent prayer, submission, or simply taking a break. It is often used in digital conversations to signal patience or to act out a scene alongside other figures like 🚶🏿‍♂️ or 🙏🏿.

History

The kneeling man was added to the Unicode standard in 2019. It was part of a larger push by the Unicode Consortium to increase human representation by providing skin tone modifiers and gender options for existing action-based emojis, moving away from generic icons toward more specific identity markers.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏿‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3ff_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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