Man kneeling

Man kneeling Emoji

People

A figure of a man positioned on both knees with his upper body upright. The character is depicted in a neutral, stable stance that suggests a moment of rest, supplication, or readiness.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent physical exhaustion, the act of bowing, or proposing a question. It is often utilized alongside the person kneeling or woman kneeling variants to denote specific gender identification during conversations about exercise, meditation, or kneeling for respect.

History

The kneeling man was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0. Its inclusion was a response to the push for greater gender diversity across human-centric pictographs, allowing users to express these specific poses with more granular identification.

Details

Glyph
๐ŸงŽโ€โ™‚
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
kneelkneelingkneesmanpeoplepersonactivityrestproposebowhuman posture

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