🙇‍♂️

Man Bowing Emoji 🙇‍♂️

What 🙇‍♂️ means

From the shoulders up, a man bows with his hands held in front of his face, looking forward, with a row of triangular marks above his head. These marks signify genuinity.

According to the Japanese ethic of the Dogeza, the 🙇‍♂️ Man Bowing emoji suggests deep gratitude and deep apology. Besides, it can also refer to a sense of devotion, surrender, praise, and in a strange sense, even lying down for a massage.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

Send the 🙇‍♂️ emoji while asking for an urgent yet huge favor, like taking the dog for a walk while you finish your weekly shower or something. (You can use this emoji for much more serious stuff too).
If someone did return that favor, you can use 🙇‍♂️ as a way of being deeply grateful.
You can also use 🙇‍♂️ as a way of surrendering yourself to someone or something.
If something spectacular on social media post caught your eye, and falls in line with the things you love the most, then you can use 🙇‍♂️ as a way of saying that you're down on your knees for it (a music band, art, photography, anything).
🙇‍♂️ can also be used to show that you're taking some time alone, to meditate, reflect, and basically away from all the noise.
If you're at the massage center for some pampering, then you can use 🙇‍♂️ to show that you're getting a massage (weird, but works).
In some other alternate universe, the 🙇‍♂️ emoji also works as a push-up gesture, you know, the exercise.

Other Names

🙇‍♂️ Bowing Down
🙇‍♂️ Bowing Man
🙇‍♂️ Reverence
🙇‍♂️ Gratitude
🙇‍♂️ Apologies
🙇‍♂️ Surrender
🙇‍♂️ Massage
🙇‍♂️ Asking For a Favor
🙇‍♂️ Pushups
🙇‍♂️ Devotion
🙇‍♂️ Prayer
🙇‍♂️ Introspection
🙇‍♂️ Praise
🙇‍♂️ Glorify
🙇‍♂️ Blessed

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F647 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-bowing: Slack:man_bowing: Discord
Keywords: apology, ask, beg, bow, bowing, favor, forgive, gesture, man, meditate, meditation, pity, regret, sorry
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.