Man kneeling facing right: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A man with dark skin depicted in a kneeling position, oriented to face toward the right. This figure shows the person resting on their knees, often signifying humility, physical exertion, or waiting.
Usage Context
Used to represent someone taking a knee, resting, or getting into a lower position. It is frequently used in discussions about sports, moments of prayer or reflection, or simply to show a character sitting on the floor. It is often combined with other people emojis like 🧍🏿♂️ to show a change in posture or activity level.
History
This emoji was created using the Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequence, a technical method that stitches together multiple existing characters to form a single, complex image. This approach was adopted by the Unicode Consortium to increase diversity and represent a wider range of human postures without needing to create thousands of individual, static emoji files.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏿♂➡
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3ff_200d_2642_200d_27a1:
HTML Entity
����‍♂‍➡
Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.
Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.
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