Person kneeling facing right: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A figure depicted in a kneeling position, oriented toward the right, rendered with a medium-brown skin tone. The character rests on both knees, showing a posture of grounded stillness or movement.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent actions like proposing, praying, waiting, or showing physical fatigue. It is often sent alongside 🧘🏽 or 🛐 to signify moments of introspection or physical exertion.

History

This variant was added to the Unicode standard as part of the ongoing efforts to broaden representation in digital communication. It builds on the base kneeling person character, utilizing ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences to allow users to specify directionality and skin tone, reflecting the push for more granular personalization in modern messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏽‍➡

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FD U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fd_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍➡

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