This emoji channels peak "I have dishonored the group chat" energy: a person dropping into a deep bow to apologize, show reverence, or beg for mercy. People use it for sincere thanks, exaggerated sorry-not-sorry theatrics, or to kneel before a friend's S-tier skillsโthink Wayne's World "we're not worthy" but in one tap. In stan and gaming chats it reads as full-on prostration to queens, kings, or RNG gods. With the light skin tone, the hands and face appear pale/peach, making the grovel extra visible in dark-mode timelines.
On Apple/iOS, youโll spot a kneeling figure in a blue top, arms stretched forward, hands flat on the floor, eyes closed, head dipped so low the forehead nearly kisses the groundโclassic dogeza silhouette. The V-angled back and tiny frown sell that "I messed up, please accept my apology" drama, but it also lands as playful sarcasm for micro-offenses like sending "their" instead of "theyโre". Cultural note: bowing deeply is tied to Japanese etiquette for apology and respect, which the internet reinterprets as meme-level devotion, humble thanks, or flirt-adjacent "forgive me, senpai" vibes. Drop it when youโre groveling to a mod, thanking a coworker who saved the deploy, or ironically overreacting to a typo you absolutely will make again.
The Person Bowing Deeply emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2543 of 2393 |
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| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | White Person Bowing Deeply Man Bowing: Light Skin Tone person bowing: light skin tone man bowing: light skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ป |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ป |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🙇 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🙇 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f647, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F647, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128583, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 87, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 207, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE47, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde47, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56903, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F647 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F647, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128583, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F647\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE47\uD83C\uDFFB" |
