Woman kneeling Emoji

People

A woman shown in a side-profile view, positioned on her knees with her torso upright. Her hands rest naturally at her sides, conveying a posture of humility, waiting, or physical stillness.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent prayer, submission, or simply being ready for an activity. It acts as a gendered variant to the standard 🧎 and is often grouped with other human activity icons like 🧘 to illustrate exercise, meditation, or quiet moments.

History

The kneeling woman was added to the Unicode standard in 2019 as part of the expansion of gender-inclusive and diverse human activities. It was developed to give users more precise ways to depict specific actions without relying on generic, gender-neutral character sets.

Details

Glyph

🧎‍♀

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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