🧘 Person in Lotus Position

The 🧘 Person in Lotus Position emoji belongs to the resting people, filed by Unicode under People & Body. Typical contexts are cross, legged, legs and lotus. Further official keywords are meditation, peace, person and position.

You can drop 🧘 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under People and Body. The character has been part of the standard since 2017 (Emoji 5.0). Its code point is U+1F9D8. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• A single 🧘 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about cross, legged, legs and lotus.
• Often seen near 🧘🏻 Person in Lotus Position: Light Skin Tone, 🧘🏻‍♂️ Man in Lotus Position: Light Skin Tone and 🧘‍♂️ Man in Lotus Position.

The lotus position comes from Indian meditative traditions and is attested in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism for thousands of years. In the West, yoga turned it chiefly into an image of health and relaxation.

In chat the emoji usually signals composure or – ironically – performed calm in the face of chaos. That the posture is originally a spiritual discipline barely registers any more.

Easy to mix up with 🧘🏻 Person in Lotus Position: Light Skin Tone, 🧘🏻‍♂️ Man in Lotus Position: Light Skin Tone or 🧘‍♂️ Man in Lotus Position. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.