The man bowing: dark skin tone emoji is peak humility energy—dramatic respect, mega-thanks, or a "my bad, I have seen the error of my ways" moment. It’s the go-to when someone drops a flawless tutorial, carries the group project, or saves a doomed weekend plan—basically the digital equivalent of laying your pride on the floor. Not the same as folded hands; this one is full send: forehead-down, dogeza vibes, respect meter at 100. You’ll see it in stan tweets after a legendary comeback, in gaming chats after a 1v5 clutch, or as ironic theater—"bowing to the microwave for resurrecting last night’s pizza."
On Apple/iOS, he’s kneeling with his torso folded forward, hands flat on the ground, eyes closed, brows slightly angled—total apology/admiration pose. The outfit is a clean blue shirt with dark pants, shaded in Apple’s soft gradients; the perspective is straight-on so the bowed head dominates the frame. With the dark skin tone, the face and hands render in rich brown tones that pop against the cool blue shirt, making the gesture feel even more grounded and human. Culturally, it nods to Japanese etiquette and anime’s over-the-top apology scenes, but online it also doubles as "we’re not worthy" meme lore, exaggerated thank-yous, and even playful flirting—"your playlist made me bow fr."
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3209 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| 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 | |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 11 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🙇🏿♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 5 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🙇🏿♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🙇 🏿 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🙇 🏿 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f647, 1f3ff, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F647, U+1F3FF, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128583, 127999, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 87, F0 9F 8F BF, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 207, 360 237 217 277, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE47, 0xD83C 0xDFFF, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde47, d83cdfff, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56903, 55356 57343, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F647 0x0001F3FF 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F647, 01F3FF, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128583, 127999, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F647\U0001F3FF\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE47\uD83C\uDFFF\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
