Person kneeling: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A figure shown resting on their knees with their torso upright. This variation features a medium-dark skin tone, reflecting the push for greater human representation across digital platforms.

Usage Context

Used to represent positions of respect, prayer, exhaustion, or simply someone taking a break on the ground. It is frequently sent alongside 🙏 to signify reverence or gratitude, or with 😴 when someone is feeling worn out.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 12.0 in 2019 as part of an expansion of gender-neutral and skin-tone-inclusive human figures, moving away from the rigid, yellow-only characters that dominated early messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏾

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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

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