People & Body · Emoji 12.0
🧎Person Kneeling Emoji
Generally, it just means “person kneeling.” People use it to visually represent that idea in a text.
The 🧎 emoji represents a person kneeling.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CE
- Released
- 2019
- Shortcode
- :kneeling_
person: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧎 Person Kneeling emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Person Kneeling emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9CE — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your person kneeling looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Kneeling emoji skin tones
🧎 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Person Kneeling emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :kneeling_person:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9CE.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧎 Person Kneeling emoji
No picker to hand? The person kneeling can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person Kneeling emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Person Kneeling emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person kneeling for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🧎 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the person kneeling and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
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.
11 — Difference
🧎 vs 💇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Kneeling
Code: U+1F9CE · added 2019
Shortcode: :kneeling_person:
Generally, it just means “person kneeling.”
Unicode name: Person Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 · added 2010
Shortcode: :haircut:
It usually just means someone is talking about getting their hair cut or is interested in hair/beauty.
12 — History
Where the 🧎 Person Kneeling emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9CE 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.
Person Kneeling was approved as U+1F9CE and shipped in Emoji 12.0 (2019). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
13 — FAQ