Person kneeling facing right: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A figure with dark skin kneeling on the ground with their body angled toward the right. The design displays the person in a resting or submissive pose, maintaining a clear silhouette.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to convey themes of prayer, exhaustion, propose, or humble waiting. Because it shows a specific direction, it is often combined with other movement-oriented emojis like 🏃🏿 to suggest a sequence of actions or a change in physical position.
History
The base kneeling person was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to provide a gender-neutral way to represent static physical poses. The ability to modify the directionality and skin tone was finalized later to match the growing demand for more diverse and descriptive human figures in digital communication.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏿➡
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FF U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3ff_200d_27a1:
HTML Entity
����‍➡
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
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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