Person Bowing: Medium Skin Tone

🙇🏽 is the medium skin tone version of 🙇 Person Bowing. 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. 🙇 bows deeply. It shows a sincere apology, gratitude or respect.

See the default 🙇 Person Bowing emoji and all skin tones

Skin tones

Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.

person bowing

person bowing: light skin tone

person bowing: medium-light skin tone

person bowing: medium skin tone

person bowing: medium-dark skin tone

person bowing: dark skin tone

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

CLDR short name: person bowing: medium skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F647 U+1F3FD
Hex: 1F647 1F3FD
Emoji version: 1.0
Unicode version: 8.0
First released: 2015
Unicode group: People & Body
Unicode subgroup: person-gesture
Skin tone: medium
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

apology · ask · beg · bow · bowing · favor · forgive · gesture · meditate · meditation · medium skin tone · person · pity · regret · sorry

How it looks

Person Bowing: Medium Skin Tone — Fluent 3D — Fluent 3D

Person Bowing: Medium Skin Tone — Fluent Color — Fluent Color

Person Bowing: Medium Skin Tone — Fluent Flat — Fluent Flat

Your device

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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🙇🏽. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.

Questions people ask

What does the 🙇🏽 person bowing: medium skin tone emoji mean?: 🙇🏽 is the medium skin tone version of 🙇 Person Bowing. 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. 🙇 bows deeply. It shows a sincere apology, gratitude or respect.
What is the Unicode codepoint for 🙇🏽?: U+1F647 U+1F3FD.
When was the 🙇🏽 person bowing: medium skin tone emoji released?: It was added in Emoji 1.0, published in 2015, alongside Unicode 8.0. 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 “person bowing”. 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.