Man kneeling facing right: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-light skin kneeling on both knees, oriented toward the right. The design combines the person kneeling emoji with a directional arrow to clarify his orientation.

Usage Context

Used to represent someone resting, praying, or waiting. It is frequently employed in digital communication to signal submission, fatigue, or the act of kneeling down to pick something up. It often appears alongside 🧘 or 🛌 when discussing rest or physical movement.

History

The kneeling person emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to provide a more descriptive posture than basic standing figures. The ZWJ sequence for directionality was later implemented to give users more control over how figures interact within a chat window, addressing the limitations of earlier, static character designs.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏼‍♂‍➡

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fc_200d_2642_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♂‍➡

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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