Person bowing: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a dark skin tone hunched over with their upper body parallel to the ground. Their hands are placed flat on the floor, indicating a deep, respectful bow or a posture of complete submission.

Usage Context

This gesture is a common non-verbal way to express a sincere apology, deep gratitude, or a request for a significant favor. It is frequently used in digital messaging to signify 'sorry' or to show humble respect. It functions similarly to the praying hands 🙏 but leans more toward showing remorse or deference.

History

The bowing person was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 to reflect the 'dogeza' posture prevalent in Japanese culture, where one bows low to show extreme respect or to apologize for a major social transgression. The skin tone variants were introduced later in 2015 to allow for better representation across global user bases.

Details

Glyph

🙇🏿

Unicode

U+1F647 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f647_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE47;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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