Person in lotus position: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person sitting cross-legged with their hands resting on their knees, palms facing upward in a meditative mudra. This version features a light skin tone, reflecting the skin-tone modifier system implemented to represent human diversity in digital communication.

Usage Context

Used to signal that someone is practicing yoga, meditating, or simply trying to find a moment of calm. It is frequently sent when a person needs to de-stress or is taking a break from a hectic day. People often pair it with emojis like 🧘 or ✨ to emphasize a peaceful mindset or mindfulness.

History

The base emoji was added to Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of the push to broaden the range of human activity emojis. The skin tone options were enabled by the Unicode Consortium to allow users to better customize their digital avatars to match their own appearance.

Details

Glyph

🧘🏻

Unicode

U+1F9D8 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d8_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD8;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-resting

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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