People & Body · Emoji 15.1
Person Kneeling Facing Right Emoji
Means kneeling, often for prayer, respect, or a physical task like gardening. Sent literally, or sometimes as a joke about begging or pleading for something.
It’s a kneeling figure from the same 2023 directional update, facing right so it reads naturally in sentences.
- Unicode
- U+1F9CE U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2023
- Shortcode
- :person_
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 🧎➡️ Person Kneeling Facing Right emoji mean?
02 — Platforms
Person Kneeling Facing Right 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 facing right 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 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
Person Kneeling Facing Right emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :person_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 🧎➡️ Person Kneeling Facing Right emoji
No picker to hand? The person kneeling facing right can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Person Kneeling Facing Right emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 4. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
07 — Combinations
Person Kneeling Facing Right emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
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 Facing Right
Code: U+1F9CE U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :person_kneeling_facing_right:
Means kneeling, often for prayer, respect, or a physical task like gardening.
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 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+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.
Person Kneeling Facing Right was approved as U+1F9CE 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