Person bowing

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Shortcode: :bow:
Shortcode: :person_bowing:
Unicode: U+1F647
HTML: 🙇
CSS: \1F647
JavaScript: "\u{1F647}"
URL: %F0%9F%99%87

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What 🙇 means

A person in a deep bow, forehead low. 🙇 shows apology, deep gratitude, respect or a humble request.

It says a sincere sorry, thanks someone who went out of their way, or begs a favor. In East Asian cultures a bow is everyday courtesy, which gives it a tone of real respect rather than drama.

Facts

Person bowing 🙇 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :bow: or :person_bowing:. People also look for it with words like “apology”, “ask”, “beg”, or “bow”.