Big respect vibes. The person bowing: medium skin tone emoji is the ultimate combo of “thank you,” “I’m so sorry,” and “you’re legendary, I am but dust.” It’s the digital dogeza—deep, formal, and a little dramatic—used when someone saves your day, carries the group project, or drops a god-tier tutorial you absolutely didn’t deserve for free. It can also read as playful groveling (“pls forgive my clownery”) or a humble flex of manners when you want to show peak politeness.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot a front-facing figure in a deep bow with the forehead angled toward the ground, eyes closed, and hands placed flat in front—no props, just pure humility. The medium skin tone shows as a warm medium-brown on the face and hands, paired with a simple blue top that keeps the focus on the pose. The silhouette screams “serious bow,” with a low center of gravity and that unmistakable top-of-head view that says, “I mean this.” Clean, rounded Apple styling keeps it friendly-looking even when the emotion is intense.
Culturally, this nods to Japanese etiquette and the full-on bow used for profound thanks or apology; online, it moonlights as the “I’m not worthy” meme from 90s comedies and modern stan culture. People send it sarcastically after minor mishaps (“I was two minutes late—my deepest regrets”), flirtatiously to hype someone up (“your playlist? chef’s kiss, I bow”), or as a respectful salute to a clutch play, a fire fit, or a masterful comeback. It’s humble, dramatic, and just the right amount of over-the-top to say you mean it—unlike that half-hearted “sry lol.”
The Person Bowing Deeply emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3896 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: | Olive Toned Person Bowing Deeply Man Bowing: Medium Skin Tone person bowing: medium skin tone man bowing: medium skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F647, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128583, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 87, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 207, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE47, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde47, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56903, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F647 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F647, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128583, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F647\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE47\uD83C\uDFFD" |
