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🧎Person Kneeling emoji

[pur-suhn neel-ing ih-moh-jee]

What does 🧎Person Kneeling emoji mean?

The person kneeling emoji, 🧎, depicts a person on their knees, as if praying or resting.

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Where does 🧎Person Kneeling emoji come from?

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The person kneeling emoji was approved under Unicode 12.0 in 2019. The March 2018 proposal to Unicode for the person kneeling emoji also suggested the additions of a person standing (which won approval as🧍) and person sitting (which became represented in chair 🪑) to join person walking🚶 and person running 🏃 “to complete a full set of basic human behaviours associated with stillness and motion.”

The kneeling person emoji shows a person in profile, usually wearing jeans, a t-shirt, and shoes, resting on their knees with their hands on their lap. The kneeling person emoji is by default a yellow man or gender-neutral person. When joined with the male sign emoji ♂, it specifically becomes man kneeling. When joined with the female sign emoji ♀, the kneeling person emoji shows a woman kneeling. For all genders, the kneeling person is wearing blue pants or jeans; the man kneeling is wearing a green or red t-shirt (in versions released so far); the woman kneeling is wearing a purple shirt. As for other emoji based on people, skin-tone modifiers are available for person kneeling emoji.

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On unsupported platforms, person kneeling emoji may display as an empty box.

Examples of 🧎Person Kneeling emoji

📝 Gender-unspecified code points which display as women or men on most platforms (at present) ....  👱 🙍 🙎 🙅 🙆 💁 🙋 🧏 🙇 🤦 🤷 👮 🕵 💂 👷 👳 🦸 🦹 🧙 🧚 🧛 🧜 🧝 🧞 🧟 💆 💇 🚶 🧍 🧎 🏃 👯 🧖 🧗 🏌 🏄 🚣 🏊 ⛹ 🏋 🚴 🚵 🤸 🤼 🤽 🤾 🤹 🧘
@Emojipedia, March, 2019
As we're enjoying the last #4DayWeek for a while, it's worth reading about how the shorter working week could actually help solve deep crises of stagnating wages 📉 a welfare state on its knees 🧎 and a crumbling planet 🌎 ...
@NEF, May, 2019
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Who uses 🧎Person Kneeling emoji?

As the person kneeling emoji is young, it hasn’t gotten its legs yet …

As person kneeling emoji becomes more familiar on our emoji keyboards, expect the emoji to be used as a gesture of respect or worship, especially in a religious sense akin to place of worship emoji, which depicts a figure one their knees praying 🛐.

Kneeling is a position also assumed in other activities, from sports to exercise to resting to … more adult endeavors. Expect to find person kneeling applied to such contexts.

The person kneeling emoji may also be used in the context of various knee-related expressions (e.g., on one’s knees, take a knee, etc.).

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