Person Bowing Emoji
What does the Person Bowing emoji mean?
A person making a deep bow — a gesture of profound respect or sincere gratitude in many cultures. It can also convey courtesy, humility, or an apology.
A yellow-faced emoji with arms extended forward and hands pressed together in a bow. The head is lowered, and a few small dashes above it show the nodding motion.
This smiley is used to convey sincere apologies to someone. It comes from Japanese culture, where such a deep bow — called a "dogeza" — is traditionally performed as a sign of gratitude or when asking for a big favor from another person.
Also Known As
- 🙇 Bowing Man
- 🙇 Cute Boy
- 🙇 Dogeza
- 🙇 Massage
Apple Name
- 🙇 Person Bowing
Unicode Name
- 🙇 Person Bowing Deeply
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Person Bowing emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🙇 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F647
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%99%87 |
| Punycode | xn--f48h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 99 87 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDE47 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f647 |
| CSS | \01F647 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F647} |
| Perl | \x{1F647} |
| HTML hex | 🙇 |
| HTML dec | 🙇 |
Tags: apology, bow, gesture, person bowing, sorry, ask, beg, bowing, favor, forgive, meditate, meditation, person, pity
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Gestures & poses