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🧎‍♀️Woman Kneeling Emoji

Q: What does the 🧎♀️ woman kneeling emoji mean?

🧎♀️ is the woman 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.

🧎‍♀️ is the woman kneeling emoji, U+1F9CE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F, one of 58 in the Activities set. It arrived with Emoji 12.0 (2019) and is commonly used for kneel, kneeling and knees.

What 🧎‍♀️ woman 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.

How 🧎‍♀️ is built

This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.

🧎U+1F9CEperson kneeling
·U+200DZero-width joiner
♀U+2640female sign
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F9CE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`🧎‍♀️`
HTML decimal	`🧎‍♀️`
CSS	`\1F9CE\200D\2640\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F9CE}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F9CE\U0000200D\U00002640\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDDCE\u200D\u2640\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f9ce}\u{200d}\u{2640}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F9CE}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F9CE}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A7%8E%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A7 8E E2 80 8D E2 99 80 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DDCE 200D 2640 FE0F`
Base64	`8J+njuKAjeKZgO+4jw==`
Decimal	`129486 8205 9792 65039`
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
woman

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How to type 🧎‍♀️

Windows — press Win + . and search “woman kneeling”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “kneel”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f9ce and 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 🧎‍♀️ woman kneeling emoji mean?+

🧎‍♀️ is the woman 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 🧎‍♀️?+

woman kneeling is U+1F9CE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🧎‍♀️, in CSS \1F9CE\200D\2640\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F9CE}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🧎‍♀️ emoji added?+

woman 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 🧎‍♀️ woman kneeling.