🙇♂️ Man bowing emoji
HTML
🙇,8205,9794,65039;
Unicode
U+1F647 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
What is 🙇♂️ called?
🙇♂️ is called the Man bowing emoji.
Often called the bowing man, apologising man, or respectful man. These are natural descriptions of the gesture, not separate Unicode characters.
What does 🙇♂️ mean?
🙇♂️ is officially named man bowing. It shows a man bending forward with the head lowered and commonly communicates respect, apology, gratitude, humility, deference, or a formal bow.
Use it for a sincere apology, deep thanks, a polite request, respect, formal greeting, or humble acknowledgement. This sequence explicitly selects a man; use the neutral version when gender is irrelevant. Related choices include 🙇 Person bowing and 🙇♀️ Woman bowing.
Other meanings
It can mean bowing, sorry, apology, respect, gratitude, thank you, humility, deference, politeness, or formal greeting.
Example Usage
He apologised to the whole team 🙇♂️
The man bowed in thanks 🙇♂️
More details
Officially named man bowing. Its fully qualified sequence is U+1F647 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F. It was introduced in Emoji 4.0. This ZWJ sequence combines the base gesture with the male sign and supports skin-tone modifiers.
Visual description
A male-presenting person is shown with the torso bent forward, head lowered, and hands placed near the front of the body or floor.
The posture is the defining clue; hair, clothing, and facial details vary by platform.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
Share
https://emoji.ac/man-bowing