Person Kneeling: Medium Skin Tone

🧎🏽 is the medium skin tone version of 🧎 Person 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.

See the default 🧎 Person Kneeling emoji and all skin tones

Skin tones

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

person kneeling

person kneeling: light skin tone

person kneeling: medium-light skin tone

person kneeling: medium skin tone

person kneeling: medium-dark skin tone

person kneeling: dark skin tone

Where person-activity emoji usually appear

DBEmoji editorial interpretation

Applies 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: person kneeling: medium skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F9CE U+1F3FD
Hex: 1F9CE 1F3FD
Emoji version: 12.0
Unicode version: 12.0
First released: 2019
Unicode group: People & Body
Unicode subgroup: person-activity
DBEmoji collection: Activity
Skin tone: medium
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 CLDR

kneel · kneeling · knees · medium skin tone · person

How it looks

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

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

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

Your device

Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)

Download as image

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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 kneeling: medium skin tone emoji mean?: 🧎🏽 is the medium skin tone version of 🧎 Person 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+1F3FD.
When was the 🧎🏽 person kneeling: medium 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 “person 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.