🧎️ Person kneeling emoji

🧎️

HTML

🧎

Unicode

U+1F9CE

What is 🧎️ called?

🧎️ is called the Person kneeling emoji.

Also known as kneeling person, person on knees, kneeling pose. These are natural descriptions of the posture; the official Unicode name is person kneeling.

What does 🧎️ mean?

🧎 is officially named person kneeling. It shows a person resting on one or both knees, representing an ordinary body position rather than one fixed story.

Use it for kneeling down, prayer, proposals, gardening, tying a shoe, exercise, stretching, reaching a low surface, or lowering oneself. The posture alone does not prove worship, submission, injury, or a proposal. Related choices include 🧍 Person standing and 🚶 Person walking.

Other meanings

It can mean kneeling, prayer, proposing, gardening, stretching, exercise, tying shoes, working near the floor, resting on one knee, humility, or lowering one’s height. Context is needed before assigning an emotional, religious, or ceremonial meaning.

Example Usage

I am kneeling to reach the bottom shelf 🧎

Hold the stretch for twenty seconds 🧎

More details

Officially named person kneeling. Its code point is U+1F9CE. It was introduced in Emoji 12.0. It supports skin-tone modifiers; gendered forms use a ZWJ sequence while the base form is the neutral default.