Woman kneeling: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with medium skin tone resting on her knees. The figure is shown from the side in a posture that suggests waiting, praying, or being physically grounded.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to express humility, exhaustion, or a state of waiting. It is also used to represent people engaged in activities like yoga, sports, or religious practices where kneeling is required. It is often used in combination with 🙏 to signal devotion or with 🥱 to denote feeling worn out.
History
The kneeling person emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of a wider push for gender and skin tone modifiers to represent a broader range of human movement and states. Its inclusion reflects the need for more specific body-language indicators in modern chat messaging.
Details
Glyph
🧎🏽♀
Unicode
U+1F9CE U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fd_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
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