Woman kneeling: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman positioned on her knees, facing forward, with a medium-light skin tone. The figure is shown from the torso up, capturing a posture of rest, prayer, or readiness.

Usage Context

Used to represent someone taking a break, waiting, or engaging in activities that require a grounded position. It is frequently sent to show physical exhaustion or used alongside emojis like 🙏 to denote kneeling in prayer or respect. It serves as a gender-specific alternative to the base 🧎 emoji.

History

This emoji was added in 2019 as part of Unicode 12.0. Its inclusion was part of a larger push by the Unicode Consortium to standardize gender and skin tone modifiers across the entire people category, ensuring that digital representations of human movement were more inclusive of diverse physical identities.

Details

Glyph

🧎🏼‍♀

Unicode

U+1F9CE U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9ce_1f3fc_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDCE;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♀

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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