People & Body · Emoji 15.1
Woman Kneeling Facing Right Emoji
Means a woman kneeling, the female version of the kneeling figure. Used for prayer, a task, or jokingly to exaggerate pleading with someone for a favor.
It’s the female kneeling figure from the 2023 directional set, facing right to flow naturally in sentences.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :woman_
kneeling_ facing_ right: - Skin tones
- Yes
Added in Emoji 15.1. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧎♀️➡️ Woman Kneeling Facing Right emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Woman Kneeling Facing Right emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the woman kneeling facing right as 4 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman Kneeling Facing Right 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
Woman Kneeling Facing Right emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :woman_kneeling_facing_right:.
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 🧎♀️➡️ Woman Kneeling Facing Right emoji
No picker to hand? The woman kneeling facing right can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Woman Kneeling Facing Right emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman kneeling facing right as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 4 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
07 — Combinations
Woman Kneeling Facing Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman kneeling facing right 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 woman kneeling facing right and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🧎♀️➡️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the woman kneeling facing right lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🧎♀️➡️ vs 💇♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Kneeling Facing Right
Code: U+1F9CE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :woman_kneeling_facing_right:
Means a woman kneeling, the female version of the kneeling figure.
Unicode name: Woman Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-getting-haircut:
Basically, it’s just a fun way to represent getting a haircut.
12 — History
Where the 🧎♀️➡️ Woman Kneeling Facing Right 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 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F 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.
Woman Kneeling Facing Right was approved as U+1F9CE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 15.1 (2023). 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, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ