Woman kneeling: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium skin tone resting on her knees. The figure is shown from the side in a posture that suggests waiting, praying, or being physically grounded.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to express humility, exhaustion, or a state of waiting. It is also used to represent people engaged in activities like yoga, sports, or religious practices where kneeling is required. It is often used in combination with 🙏 to signal devotion or with 🥱 to denote feeling worn out.
History
The kneeling person emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a wider push for gender and skin tone modifiers to represent a broader range of human movement and states. Its inclusion reflects the need for more specific body-language indicators in modern chat messaging.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏽♀
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fd_200d_2640:
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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