Man bowing

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Shortcode: :bowing_man:
Shortcode: :man_bowing:
Unicode: U+1F647 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
HTML: 🙇‍♂️
CSS: \1F647\200D\2642\FE0F
JavaScript: "\u{1F647}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}"
URL: %F0%9F%99%87%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F

apology ask beg bow bowing favor forgive gesture man meditate meditation pity regret sorry

What 🙇‍♂️ means

A man bowing low. 🙇‍♂️ shows a man apologizing, giving thanks or showing respect.

Men use it for a sincere sorry after a late reply, for thanking someone who helped, or to plead for one more favor. Its tone is humble and serious, though friends also use it in mock-grovelling.

Facts

Man bowing 🙇‍♂️ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins 🙇 person bowing and ♂️ male sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bowing_man: or :man_bowing:. People also look for it with words like “apology”, “ask”, “beg”, or “bow”.

Made of

🙇+♂️=🙇‍♂️

Timeline

2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

2017
2020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

2016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 4.0