Person kneeling: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A person shown from the side in a kneeling position, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. The figure is positioned with their shins on the ground and torso upright, commonly used to represent rest, prayer, or a proposal.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent the act of getting down on one knee for a marriage proposal, engaging in quiet reflection, or showing respect. It is often combined with 💍 for engagements or 🙏 when someone is deep in prayer or meditation.

History

The base kneeling person was added to the Unicode standard in 2019. The skin tone variations were implemented shortly after to follow the skin tone modifier system introduced by the Unicode Consortium in 2015, which allows users to better represent human diversity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏼

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fc:

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

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