One person is kneeling on both knees. Represents a person who is resting or praying. Kneeling down can be a gesture of humility, express religious worship or a meditation posture. Diverted as an emoji for oral sex.
Examples
Please, show some mercy! 🧎
Are you praying right now? 🧎
I'm taking a quiet moment to center myself. 🧎
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Variants
Skin tones
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
gender
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Man kneeling
Skin tones
Man kneeling
Man kneeling: light skin tone
Man kneeling: medium-light skin tone
Man kneeling: medium skin tone
Man kneeling: medium-dark skin tone
Man kneeling: dark skin tone
gender
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Woman kneeling
Skin tones
Woman kneeling
Woman kneeling: light skin tone
Woman kneeling: medium-light skin tone
Woman kneeling: medium skin tone
Woman kneeling: medium-dark skin tone
Woman kneeling: dark skin tone
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon
First included
The emoji “Person kneeling” was approved as part of Unicode 12.0 in 2019 and added to Emoji 12.0.
