Woman bowing: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium-light skin kneeling and bowing deeply with her head toward the ground. The posture indicates a formal show of respect, deep humility, or an earnest request for forgiveness.
Usage Context
This gesture is used to express sincerity during an apology, to beg for a favor, or to signify that the sender is showing profound respect. It is frequently sent alongside 🙏 to emphasize a sense of desperation or genuine remorse in text conversations.
History
Bowing, or 'ojigi', is a fundamental social behavior in Japanese culture, serving various functions from simple greetings to formal expressions of penitence. This emoji was added to the Unicode standard to bring these specific cultural physical cues into digital communication, allowing for more nuanced emotional expression beyond simple text.
Details
Glyph
🙇🏼♀
Unicode
U+1F647 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f647_1f3fc_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-gesture
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
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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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