Man kneeling facing right: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A man with a medium-dark skin tone depicted in a kneeling position, oriented toward the right. The figure is shown from the side with both knees touching the ground, clearly indicating a posture of supplication, rest, or intentional movement.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to convey themes of submission, prayer, or physical fatigue. It is often employed in gaming culture to represent 'teabagging' or to signal that a user is taking a break. It is frequently paired with 🙏 when discussing spiritual activities or 💤 when indicating that the figure is resting.
History
The base kneeling emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 to increase gender and posture diversity. The ability to modify this emoji with specific skin tones and directional arrows was later implemented to provide users with more granular control over how these characters appear in cross-platform text messaging.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏾♂➡
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642 U+200D U+27A1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fe_200d_2642_200d_27a1:
HTML Entity
����‍♂‍➡
Specifications
Vendor Twitter/X
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Twemoji Attribution
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.
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