People & Body · Emoji 15.1
Man Kneeling Facing Right Emoji
Means a man kneeling, the male version of the kneeling figure. Used for prayer, a task, or as a joke about begging someone for something they want badly.
It’s the male kneeling figure from the 2023 directional set, facing right for natural sentence flow.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CE U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :man_
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 🧎♂️➡️ Man Kneeling Facing Right emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Man Kneeling Facing Right emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9CE. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 4.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man 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
Man Kneeling Facing Right 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 :man_kneeling_facing_right:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the man kneeling facing right, code point U+1F9CE.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧎♂️➡️ Man Kneeling Facing Right emoji
No picker to hand? The man kneeling facing right can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Man Kneeling Facing Right emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man 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
Man Kneeling Facing Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
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: Man Kneeling Facing Right
Code: U+1F9CE U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :man_kneeling_facing_right:
Means a man kneeling, the male version of the kneeling figure.
Unicode name: Man Getting Haircut
Code: U+1F487 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-getting-haircut:
It usually just means someone is getting a haircut or talking about hair.
12 — History
Where the 🧎♂️➡️ Man Kneeling Facing Right emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 15.1, the man kneeling facing right has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 3.
Same character every time — U+1F9CE U+200D U+2642 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.
Man Kneeling Facing Right was approved as U+1F9CE U+200D U+2642 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