Woman kneeling: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-skinned woman positioned on her knees, facing forward with her hands resting on her thighs or placed near the ground. The figure maintains a neutral posture, appearing to either rest, wait, or offer a gesture of submission or prayer.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to convey fatigue, exhaustion, or the act of waiting patiently. Because the pose is ambiguous, it is also used to represent exercise, such as stretching or yoga, or to indicate a person looking for something on the floor. It is often paired with 😩 to show weariness or 🧘🏿♀️ to suggest a meditative state.
History
The base kneeling person emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of Emoji 12.0. The version including specific gender and skin tone modifiers arrived shortly after, reflecting a push toward more granular representation of human activities and physical appearances in digital communication.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏿♀
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FF U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3ff_200d_2640:
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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