Person Bowing
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Previously displayed with a gendered appearance, now shown as gender neutral on most platforms.
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.