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:lotus_position::person_in_lotus_position:U+1F9D8🧘\1F9D8"\u{1F9D8}"%F0%9F%A7%98A person sitting cross-legged in meditation. It means yoga, mindfulness, and calm, and often staying zen under pressure.
People post it for yoga classes, meditation breaks, and quiet mornings with ๐ฏ๏ธ or ๐ฟ. It is also used with irony: โtotally calm ๐งโ right before or after a stressful moment. In work chat it says the sender is not panicking, at least on the surface.
Person in lotus position ๐ง is an emoji in the people and body category, under person resting. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. 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 :lotus_position: or :person_in_lotus_position:. People also look for it with words like โcrossโ, โleggedโ, โlegsโ, or โlotusโ.
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