What does 🙇 mean?
A person bowing deeply: respect, apology, gratitude – a Japanese gesture.
Its official Unicode name is PERSON BOWING DEEPLY and its CLDR short name is "person bowing" (in Hungarian: "meghajló ember"). It belongs to the People & Body group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- apology
- ask
- beg
- bow
- bowing
- favor
- forgive
- gesture
- meditate
- meditation
In Hungarian: bocsánat, bocsánatkérés, elnézést, meditáció, meditál, meghajlás, meghajol, sajnálat, sajnálom
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 🙇 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F647. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- PERSON BOWING DEEPLY
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- meghajló ember
- English name (CLDR)
- person bowing
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- People & Body · person gesture
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :bow:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the 🙇 emoji mean?
A person bowing deeply: respect, apology, gratitude – a Japanese gesture.
How do I type the 🙇 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "apology".
When was the 🙇 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Does 🙇 come in skin tones?
Yes, it comes in five skin tones: your device adds a Unicode skin tone modifier (U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF) after the emoji. You can copy all five variants above.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.