Person kneeling: light skin tone Emoji

People

A figure shown resting on their knees with their hands held near their chest. This version features a light skin tone, representing a person in a lowered, stationary pose.

Usage Context

Used to denote begging, praying, resting, or showing submission or deep respect. It is frequently used in internet subcultures to express an exaggerated sense of defeat or devotion, often paired with the 🙏 or 🙇 emojis to reinforce the physical posture.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2019, this emoji was introduced as part of the broader effort to provide gender-neutral and diverse skin tone options for human figures, reflecting the push for more inclusive representation in digital messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏻

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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