🙇Person Bowing Emoji
Generally, 🙇 means “I’m sorry” or “please forgive me. ” It’s a visual way to show you recognize you’ve done something wrong, or that you’re deeply grateful.
The 🙇 emoji shows a person bowing deeply.
- Unicode
- U+1F647
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :bow:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🙇 Person Bowing emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Person Bowing emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F647. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Person Bowing emoji skin tones
🙇 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Person Bowing emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :bow:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F647.
How to type the 🙇 Person Bowing emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Person Bowing emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the person bowing as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Person Bowing emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person bowing for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🙇, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🙇 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🙇 means in other countries
In Japan it’s a real gesture of respect or apology; in Western chat it’s mostly a joke about groveling.
Reads as a genuine, formal bow — respect, gratitude or a serious apology.
Tends to show up as comic over-apologizing rather than real respect.
Can look oddly formal or sarcastic depending on how well you know the other person.
Before you send it: Great for humor with friends; for a genuine apology in English, words still carry more weight.
What 🙇 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🙇 vs 🙇♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Bowing
Code: U+1F647 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bow:
Generally, 🙇 means “I’m sorry” or “please forgive me.
Unicode name: Woman Bowing
Code: U+1F647 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-bowing:
Generally, 🙇♀️ means you’re deeply sorry or expressing a lot of respect.
Where the 🙇 Person Bowing emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F647 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
🙇 existed there as
KDDI au EAD9, SoftBank E426.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person Bowing was approved as U+1F647 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🙇 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.