Man Kneeling: Light Skin Tone
🧎🏻♂️ is the light skin tone version of 🧎♂️ Man Kneeling. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
Skin tones
Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.
Where person-activity emoji usually appear
DBEmoji editorial interpretationApplies to every emoji in this Unicode subgroup, not only this one.
- Describing what someone is doing right now
- Captioning activity, hobby, and lifestyle posts
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- CLDR short name
- man kneeling: light skin tone
- Codepoint
- U+1F9CE U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Hex
- 1F9CE 1F3FB 200D 2642 FE0F
- Emoji version
- 12.0
- Unicode version
- 12.0
- First released
- 2019
- Unicode group
- People & Body
- Unicode subgroup
- person-activity
- DBEmoji collection
- Activity
- Skin tone
- light
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Activity is a DBEmoji collection drawn from Unicode’s People & Body group (the person-activity and person-resting subgroups). How this data is built
Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRkneel · kneeling · knees · light skin tone · man
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
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Questions people ask
- What does the 🧎🏻♂️ man kneeling: light skin tone emoji mean?
- 🧎🏻♂️ is the light skin tone version of 🧎♂️ Man Kneeling. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🧎🏻♂️?
- U+1F9CE U+1F3FB U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F.
- When was the 🧎🏻♂️ man kneeling: light skin tone emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 12.0, published in 2019, alongside Unicode 12.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🧎🏻♂️ on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “man kneeling”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🧎🏻♂️ from this page with one click.