On Apple/iOS, the figure kneels and folds forward with the crown of the head facing the viewer, short dark hair visible. Arms reach straight out, palms flat to the ground; the blue long-sleeve shirt and dark pants are a dead giveaway, and the face is mostly hidden in a full prostration for max “please forgive me” vibes. In the dark skin tone version, the visible skin—especially the hands—shows a rich deep-brown that pops against the blue shirt.
You’ll see it everywhere for “teacher, I’m sorry,” “chef’s kiss but humbler,” anime-style respect, “we are not worthy” (pure Wayne’s World energy), and melodramatic gratitude across stan Twitter, TikTok captions, and Discord. It’s also the go-to when begging for mercy on a deadline, thanking someone for clutch help, or saluting a legendary play, recipe, or meme with full-on stan intensity.
At its core, it’s a whole-body I’m-not-worthy in a tiny picture—dramatic humility, deep apology, and over-the-top respect. It also leans sarcastic (“Wow, you solved basic math? 🙇🏿”) or flirt-adjacent admiration (“teach me your ways, sensei”). The pose nods to Japan’s dogeza tradition—the deepest bow with the forehead near the floor—so it can read as intensely polite or hilariously extra depending on context.
The Person Bowing Deeply emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3898 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Black Person Bowing Deeply Man Bowing: Dark Skin Tone person bowing: dark skin tone man bowing: dark 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F647, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128583, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 87, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 207, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE47, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde47, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56903, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F647 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F647, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128583, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F647\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE47\uD83C\uDFFF" |
