🧎

Person Kneeling Emoji 🧎

Down on one knee, a pose used for kneeling in respect, praying, or popping the question — reverence and proposal both read from the same stance. In sports contexts it also covers taking a knee as a form of protest, depending entirely on what's happening around it.

What 🧎 means

A gender-neutral representation of a person kneeling down completely, with the hands kept on the thighs while the character crouches a little and stares slightly downwards.

The 🧎 Person Kneeling emoji can suggest a gesture of kneeling in prayer, reverence, and devotion. It can also signify resting, doing yoga, facing punishment, or even the posture of a movie-like proposal.

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

How and when to use it

If you're either posting a story, tweeting, or texting a friend that you're going to be busy for a couple of minutes because you're either going to a holy place, having a family prayer time or some alone time of devotion, you can use 🧎 in such conversations.
You can also use 🧎 as a way of showing defeat, sadness, and misery. For example, if you're having a super rough patch and you're texting a close friend about it you can use this emoji in contexts like "Man. I don't think I've got it in me anymore. This sucks 🧎".
Apart from prayer and sadness, you can use 🧎 to even show devotion towards something besides a deity - it can be a musician, a music album, art, a celebrity, a movie series, anything. So, the next time you post about something you're absolutely devoted to, use this emoji.
On some platforms such as Twitter and Google, this emoji is shown as a half-kneel. So, in such cases, you can use 🧎 as an indication of taking a vow or bowing down to someone or something or even offering a romantic proposal.
If you're mentally praying or rather hoping for something, you can use 🧎 to suggest that emotion - like "Yo... I really hope I don't have to show up tomorrow 🧎".

Other Names

🧎 Gender-Neutral Person Kneeling
🧎 Bow Down
🧎 On the Knees
🧎 Praying
🧎 Relaxing
🧎 Yoga Posture
🧎 Bow
🧎 Stoop
🧎 Resting on the Floor
🧎 Devotion
🧎 Sitting on the Floor

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-activity
Codepoints: U+1F9CE
Emoji version: Emoji 12.0
Shortcodes: :kneeling_person: GitHub · Slack:person_kneeling: Discord
Keywords: kneel, kneeling, knees, person

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.