🙇 Person Bowing
A person bowing deeply which is known as dogeza in Japan. Used to express a sincere apology, or to request a large favour.
Many variations of this emoji are misinterpreted as a person doing push-ups, lying down to have a massage, or doing a cute "head resting on hands" gesture.
Person Bowing was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Person Bowing Deeply” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Also Known As
- 🙇 Bowing Man
- 🙇 Cute Boy
- 🙇 Dogeza
- 🙇 Massage
Unicode Name
🙇 Person Bowing Deeply
Modifiers
The Person Bowing Deeply emoji supports skin tone modifiers. A yellow (or other non-human) skin tone should be shown by default, unless an emoji modifier is applied.
- 🙇🏻 Person Bowing: Light Skin Tone
- 🙇🏼 Person Bowing: Medium-Light Skin Tone
- 🙇🏽 Person Bowing: Medium Skin Tone
- 🙇🏾 Person Bowing: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
- 🙇🏿 Person Bowing: Dark Skin Tone
Platforms without support for emoji modifiers display a missing symbol character (box with a cross, alien, or question mark in it) next to any modified emoji.
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :bow: