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🧘Person In Lotus Position Emoji
Tagged cross, legged and legs, 🧘 person in lotus position sits in Unicode's Resting group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 5.0 (2017) at U+1F9D8.
What 🧘 person in lotus position means
Stillness, on purpose. 🧘 covers meditation, yoga and the joke about staying calm; 🛀 and 🛌 are the standard shorthand for self-care, an early night, or opting out of plans. Person in lotus position was added in 2017, and like most figures here it comes in neutral, man and woman versions.
Unicode tags this one cross, legged and legs and files it under People & Body → Resting.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9D8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧘 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧘 | |
| CSS | \1F9D8 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D8} | |
| Python | \U0001F9D8 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDD8 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9d8} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9D8} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9D8} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%98 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 98 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDD8 | |
| Base64 | 8J+nmA== | |
| Decimal | 129496 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 5.0 (2017) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🧘 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
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How to type 🧘
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “person in lotus position”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cross”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9d8and Enter. - HTML — paste
🧘.
How 🧘 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🧘Apple
- 🧘Segoe
- 🧘Noto
- 🧘System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🧘 person in lotus position emoji mean?+
🧘 is the person in lotus position emoji, tagged cross, legged and legs. Stillness, on purpose. 🧘 covers meditation, yoga and the joke about staying calm; 🛀 and 🛌 are the standard shorthand for self-care, an early night, or opting out of plans. Person in lotus position was added in 2017, and like most figures here it comes in neutral, man and woman versions.
What is the Unicode code for 🧘?+
person in lotus position is U+1F9D8. In HTML that is 🧘, in CSS \1F9D8, and in JavaScript \u{1F9D8}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧘 emoji added?+
person in lotus position got its emoji presentation in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Resting in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 5.0 (2017)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧘 person in lotus position.