Man kneeling: light skin tone Emoji
People
A man with light skin shown in a kneeling position, resting on his knees with his upper body upright. The figure appears ready to perform a task, wait, or offer a sign of respect.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to express submission, prayer, or simple physical rest. It acts as a gender-specific alternative to the base 🧎 emoji, often used to indicate a person is waiting for something or performing an action that requires a lower physical stance, like gardening or cleaning.
History
The kneeling person was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to increase the representation of human actions. The modifier for light skin tone was implemented as part of the broader effort to allow users to customize human-figure emojis to better reflect diverse physical appearances across digital platforms.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏻♂
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fb_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
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
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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