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🙇️ Person bowing emoji

🙇️

Emoji #279

HTML

🙇

Unicode

U+1F647

What is 🙇️ called?

🙇️ is called the Person bowing emoji.

Often called the bowing person, apologising person, or respectful person. These are natural descriptions of the gesture, not separate Unicode characters.

What does 🙇️ mean?

🙇 is officially named person bowing. It shows a person 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. The base character does not specify gender. Related choices include 🙇‍♂️ Man bowing and 🙇‍♀️ Woman bowing.

Other meanings

It can mean bowing, sorry, apology, respect, gratitude, thank you, humility, deference, politeness, or formal greeting.

Example Usage

Sorry for missing the deadline 🙇

Thank you for fixing that so quickly 🙇

More details

Officially named person bowing. Its code point is U+1F647. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0. It is the gender-neutral base character and supports skin-tone modifiers.

Variants

🙇🏻

Light skin tone

🙇🏻

🙇🏼

Medium-light skin tone

🙇🏼

🙇🏽

Medium skin tone

🙇🏽

🙇🏾

Medium-dark skin tone

🙇🏾

🙇🏿

Dark skin tone

🙇🏿

Visual description

A neutrally styled 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.

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