Woman kneeling: light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure of a woman resting on her knees with her upper body upright, rendered with a light skin tone. The posture suggests someone waiting, praying, or taking a break while low to the ground.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent physical exhaustion, deep meditation, or a submissive position. It is often paired with emojis like 🙏 to denote prayer or 🛋️ to illustrate resting at home.

History

The base kneeling emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to provide more specific body language options. The skin tone variants were implemented shortly thereafter using the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence, which allows platforms to combine the base person emoji with specific gender and skin tone modifiers for better representation.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

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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