Man kneeling facing right: light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a light skin tone shown in a kneeling position, facing toward the right side of the screen. The figure is depicted with his knees bent and body lowered to the ground.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent acts of submission, prayer, fatigue, or simply the physical action of crouching down. It serves as a gendered and skin-tone-specific version of the gender-neutral 🧎 emoji, allowing for more precise identity expression in digital messaging.

History

The base kneeling emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to increase inclusivity regarding body postures. The subsequent addition of gender and skin tone modifiers via ZWJ sequences followed the broader industry push to ensure that every user has access to a digital avatar that reflects their own physical characteristics.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏻‍♂‍➡

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fb_200d_2642_200d_27a1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♂‍➡

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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