Person kneeling emoji 🧎
Emoji 12.0 (2019) · U+1F9CE
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧎 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Person kneeling 🧎 is tagged with these keywords: kneel, kneeling, knees, person.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing kneel or kneeling in the emoji search brings up 🧎.
Person kneeling 🧎 is one of 58 emoji in the people doing things subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🧎♂️ 🧎♀️ 🧎➡️ 🧎♀️➡️.
🧎 comes in 5 skin tones, from 🧎🏻 to 🧎🏿, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🧎 show on my friend's phone?
🧎 was added in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🧎
Any emoji picker finds 🧎 when you search for person kneeling.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person kneeling.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type person kneeling in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person kneeling.
Codes for developers
Person kneeling 🧎 is a single code point, U+1F9CE. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9CE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧎 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧎 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9CE"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9CE} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%8E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 8E |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧎 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | person kneeling |
| Português | pessoa ajoelhando |
| Español | persona de rodillas |
| Italiano | persona inginocchiata |
| Français | personne à genoux |
| Deutsch | kniende Person |
| Türkçe | diz çöken kişi |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang berlutut |
| Polski | klęcząca osoba |
| Русский | человек на коленях |
| 日本語 | 正座する人 |
| 한국어 | 무릎을 꿇은 사람 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the person kneeling emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧎 "person kneeling" and links it with kneel, kneeling, knees, person. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people doing things subgroup of people & body.
When was the person kneeling emoji added?
In Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🧎?
Yes. 🧎 has these skin tones: 🧎🏻 🧎🏼 🧎🏽 🧎🏾 🧎🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.