U+1F9CE "🧎" Kneeling Person Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧎
U+1F9CE "🧎" Kneeling Person is part of the Emoji 12.0 release and depicts a human figure in a kneeling posture, often interpreted as a gesture of deep respect, submission, prayer, or physical rest. It was added to Unicode in 2019 and supports multiple skin tone variations, allowing for diverse representation. The character is commonly used in digital communication to convey actions such as proposing, apologizing, or waiting, and it also carries cultural and religious significance in contexts where kneeling is a traditional sign of humility or devotion.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9CE |
| Version Added | 12.0 |
| Name | Kneeling Person |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🧎 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🧎 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x8E |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDCE |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9CE |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddce |