Man kneeling facing right: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium skin tone depicted in a kneeling position, oriented to face toward the right. The figure is shown from the side, with his legs bent and heels tucked under him.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to convey themes of submission, prayer, meditation, or physical fatigue. Because of its directional orientation, users often pair it with other movement-based emojis like 🚶🏽‍♂️ or 🏃🏽‍♂️ to illustrate a narrative of stopping, waiting, or changing direction.

History

This character is a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which combines multiple Unicode characters to render as a single complex glyph. These sequences were implemented to allow for more granular control over gender and skin tone modifiers, which were limited in earlier iterations of emoji sets like the standard 👤.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏽‍♂‍➡

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fd_200d_2642_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 CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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