Person kneeling: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure shown resting on their knees, rendered with a dark skin tone. The character is positioned in a neutral, downward-facing pose that suggests either submissiveness, physical rest, or a moment of reflection.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent prayer, fatigue after a long workout, or a gesture of apology. It is often sent alongside 🙏 to convey humility or paired with 💤 to indicate that a person is tuckered out and needs a break.

History

The base kneeling emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019. The dark skin tone variant was introduced shortly after as part of the expansion of the Fitzpatrick scale, allowing for more accurate representation across the diverse global user base of modern messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏿

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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