U+1F9CE U+1F3FC U+200D U+27A1 U+FE0F

🧎🏼‍➡️ Person kneeling: medium-light skin tone, facing right

Skin tone A click copies the symbol with the chosen tone — no need to open a separate page.

facing kneel kneeling knees medium-light skin tone person right

Unicode version
15.1 (2023)
Emoji version
15.1 (2023)
Status
fully-qualified

What 🧎🏼‍➡️ is made of

This symbol is glued together from several: an invisible joiner sits between them. Software that does not know about the joiner shows the parts separately.

  1. 🧎 person kneeling U+1F9CE
  2. 🏼 skin tone U+1F3FC
  3. invisible joiner U+200D
  4. right arrow U+27A1
  5. «draw as a picture» marker U+FE0F

Hence the familiar surprise: you send one picture and the other side gets several in a row, and deleting removes the symbol piece by piece. That is not a fault but how the standard itself works.

Will your readers see 🧎🏼‍➡️

The symbol belongs to the Emoji 15.1 set, and all four platforms have caught up with it. Below is the exact release for each.

  • Apple since March 5, 2024 iOS 17.4
  • Google since November 17, 2023 Noto Color Emoji 15.1
  • Microsoft since June 25, 2024 Windows 11 23H2 June 2024 Update
  • Samsung since October 30, 2023 One UI 6.0

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 🧎🏼‍➡️ emoji is used

The 🧎🏼‍➡️ smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how person kneeling: medium-light skin tone, facing right is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English person kneeling: medium-light skin tone, facing right
Русский человек на коленях: светлый тон кожи , направленные вправо
Deutsch kniende Person: mittelhelle Hautfarbe, nach rechts
Español persona de rodillas: tono de piel claro medio y hacia la derecha
Français personne à genoux : peau moyennement claire et vers la droite
Polski klęcząca osoba: karnacja średnio jasna i zwrócony w prawo
Dansk knælende person: medium til lys teint og mod højre
Українська людина навколішках: помірно світлий тон шкіри і правий профіль:
Português pessoa ajoelhando: pele morena clara e de frente para a direita

Unicode CLDR 48