A whole-body “I’m not worthy” in one tiny picture, this emoji channels dramatic humility, deep apology, and over-the-top respect. It’s the go-to when you’re begging for mercy on a deadline, thanking someone for clutch help, or acknowledging a legendary play, recipe, or meme with full-on stan energy. People also drop it sarcastically—like, “Wow, you solved basic math? 🙇🏿”—or flirt-adjacent, as in “teach me your ways, sensei.” It nods to the Japanese dogeza tradition (the deepest bow, forehead near the floor), so it can read as intensely polite or hilariously extra depending on context.
On Apple/iOS, the figure kneels forward with the top of the head facing the viewer, short dark hair, arms stretched out, palms flat on the ground. The blue long-sleeve shirt and dark pants are instantly recognizable, and the face is mostly hidden in a full prostration pose for maximum “please forgive me” vibes. In the dark skin tone variant, the visible skin—especially the hands—shows a rich deep-brown tone that stands out against the blue shirt. You’ll see it used for “teacher, I’m sorry,” “chef’s kiss but humbler,” “we are not worthy” (Wayne’s World energy), anime-style respect, and melodramatic gratitude posts all over stan Twitter, TikTok captions, and Discord servers.
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 |
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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: | 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" |
