Meet person bowing: medium-light skin tone — the universal sign for “I’m so sorry/so grateful/so impressed that I must fold in half.” It channels Japanese ojigi culture, so it reads as sincere respect, a deep apology, or a theatrical “I am not worthy” moment. In chats, it pops up after a lifesaving favor, when you biff a deadline and beg for mercy, or as a melodramatic thank-you to the barista who saved your morning. Meme-side, it doubles as the “senpai notice me” bow, the streamer “thanks, chat” flourish, or a playful grovel when you’re asking for absurd favors.
On Apple/iOS, the figure wears a blue top and leans forward almost 90 degrees, head front-and-center with closed eyes and arched brows, dark hair sweeping across the forehead; no mouth in sight because the face is pointed at the floor. The medium-light skin tone reads as a soft peach-beige, and the clean Apple gradients make the pose look extra polished and intentional. Cropped from the chest up with arms angled down, it’s a straight-on, slightly top-heavy view that screams “formal bow” at a glance. People use it earnestly for gratitude and respect, but also ironically—like, “forgive my crimes (of sending 47 texts)” or “your Excel skills have humbled me.”
The Person Bowing Deeply emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3895 of 2393 |
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| 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: | Light Brown Person Bowing Deeply Man Bowing: Medium-Light Skin Tone person bowing: medium-light skin tone man bowing: medium-light skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🙇🏼 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🙇🏼 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🙇 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🙇 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f647, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F647, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128583, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 87, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 207, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE47, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde47, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56903, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F647 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F647, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128583, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F647\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE47\uD83C\uDFFC" |
