Person kneeling facing right: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure shown resting on their knees, oriented toward the right, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. The posture captures a person in a state of genuflection, submission, or simply taking a break on the floor.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent athletic stretching, prayer, or exhaustion. It is often sent when someone is 'on their knees' begging, pleading, or showing respect. It is commonly paired with 🙏 for devotional contexts or 🏃🏼 to imply recovery after a long run.

History

The kneeling person was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to increase the variety of human poses available in emoji sets. It was later updated with ZWJ sequences to allow for specific directional movement and skin tone modifiers to better represent diverse groups of users.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏼‍➡

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FC U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fc_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍➡

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository