Woman kneeling facing right: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A woman positioned on her knees, oriented toward the right, rendered with a medium skin tone. This complex sequence uses a ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) to combine a kneeling person, a gender modifier, and a directional arrow to lock the orientation.

Usage Context

Used to represent someone resting, praying, or waiting in a specific direction. Because of its complex construction, it is often paired with other directional icons or person-based emojis like 🧍🏽‍♂️ or 🚶🏽‍♀️ to describe physical activity or spatial positioning.

History

While the base kneeling figure was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019, the ability to combine gender, direction, and skin tone modifiers arrived shortly after to bring parity to mobile messaging platforms that needed more granular control over character personas.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏽‍♀‍➡

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640 U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fd_200d_2640_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♀‍➡

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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