A woman kneeling, standing for begging, prayer, a proposal, or deep admiration.
It pairs with ๐ when a woman proposes, and with ๐ for prayer or desperate pleading. Fans use it to bow before an artist: โwe are not worthy ๐งโโ๏ธโ. It can also show a woman gardening or working close to the floor.
Facts
Woman 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 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 :kneeling_woman: or :woman_kneeling:. People also look for it with words like โkneelโ, โkneelingโ, โkneesโ, or โwomanโ.
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
2020
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