Man raising hand Emoji

People

A man with a neutral expression lifting his right arm high into the air with an open palm. It portrays the physical action of volunteering, signaling for attention, or indicating presence in a group.

Usage Context

Widely used to say 'I know the answer' in a digital classroom setting or to volunteer for a task. It is frequently sent alongside the 🙋 or 🙋‍♀️ emojis to represent team participation or to grab someone's attention in a crowded chat thread.

History

This emoji was created by combining the base 'person raising hand' emoji with a gender modifier following the release of Unicode 7.0 and 8.0, which sought to provide more granular gender representation for human-based gestures that were previously depicted in a neutral format.

Details

Glyph

🙋‍♂

Unicode

U+1F64B U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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