What ๐งโโ๏ธ means
A man down on his knees, used for proposals, pleading, prayer and showing respect.
With ๐ it is the classic picture of a man proposing. It also begs for forgiveness or a favor, and fans use it to bow before a star athlete or a legendary performance. Some use it for kneeling in church.
Facts
Man kneeling ๐งโโ๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.0, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person kneeling and โ๏ธ 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 :kneeling_man: or :man_kneeling:. People also look for it with words like โkneelโ, โkneelingโ, โkneesโ, or โmanโ.
Made of
๐ง+โ๏ธ=๐งโโ๏ธ
Timeline
- 2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.0)
- 2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2019
2020
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Emoji 12.0