Woman bowing

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Shortcode: :bowing_woman:
Shortcode: :woman_bowing:
Unicode: U+1F647 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
HTML: 🙇‍♀️
CSS: \1F647\200D\2640\FE0F
JavaScript: "\u{1F647}\u{200D}\u{2640}\u{FE0F}"
URL: %F0%9F%99%87%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F

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What 🙇‍♀️ means

A woman in a deep bow. 🙇‍♀️ expresses apology, thanks or respect from a woman.

Women send it to own a mistake, to thank a colleague for covering a shift, or to ask for help politely. It adds humility, and in East Asian contexts it echoes a real, everyday gesture.

Facts

Woman 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 ♀️ female 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_woman: or :woman_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