Person kneeling facing right: light skin tone Emoji
People
A figure shown in a side-profile view, positioned with their knees on the ground and facing toward the right. This version features a light skin tone, representing a person in a posture of humility, exhaustion, or prayer.
Usage Context
Used to convey a wide range of meanings, from proposing marriage or showing respect to expressing fatigue or the act of praying. It is frequently sent alongside the 🙏 emoji to emphasize a request or sign of reverence.
History
The base kneeling person emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to increase the diversity of human poses. The specific ability to specify directionality and skin tone was finalized shortly after to allow for more precise human representation in digital chat environments.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏻➡
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FB U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fb_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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