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🧎Person Kneeling Emoji
🧎 is the person kneeling emoji, U+1F9CE, one of 58 in the Activities set. It arrived with Emoji 12.0 (2019) and is commonly used for kneel, kneeling and knees.
What 🧎 person kneeling means
What a person is doing: walking, running, dancing, climbing, getting a haircut. These carry status updates more than emotion - gym, commute, night out. The 2019 accessibility additions sit here, including the white cane and both wheelchairs, and 2023 added mirrored facing-right versions of the walking, running and kneeling figures.
Unicode tags this one kneel, kneeling and knees and files it under People & Body → Activities.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9CE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧎 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧎 | |
| CSS | \1F9CE | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9CE} | |
| Python | \U0001F9CE | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDCE | |
| Rust | \u{1f9ce} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9CE} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9CE} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%8E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 8E | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDCE | |
| Base64 | 8J+njg== | |
| Decimal | 129486 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 12.0 (2019) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🧎 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
- kneel
- kneeling
- knees
- person
Appears in these collections
How to type 🧎
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “person kneeling”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “kneel”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9ceand 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 kneeling emoji mean?+
🧎 is the person kneeling emoji, tagged kneel, kneeling and knees. What a person is doing: walking, running, dancing, climbing, getting a haircut. These carry status updates more than emotion - gym, commute, night out. The 2019 accessibility additions sit here, including the white cane and both wheelchairs, and 2023 added mirrored facing-right versions of the walking, running and kneeling figures.
What is the Unicode code for 🧎?+
person kneeling is U+1F9CE. In HTML that is 🧎, in CSS \1F9CE, and in JavaScript \u{1F9CE}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧎 emoji added?+
person kneeling got its emoji presentation in Emoji 12.0 (2019). 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 Activities in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 12.0 (2019)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧎 person kneeling.