Man raising hand: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A man with medium skin tone shown from the chest up, holding one arm straight up in the air with an open palm. His expression is typically neutral or slightly expectant, mimicking the posture of a student or participant trying to get attention.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to choice for volunteering to help, signaling that you have an answer to a question, or simply trying to be heard in a crowded digital conversation. It is often used alongside 🙋♀️ to denote active participation or to acknowledge a shared feeling of being 'the one' who knows the answer.
History
Part of the expanding range of skin tone modifiers introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, this character was developed to make emojis more inclusive. The base gesture itself has roots in early digital communication and classroom culture, where the raised hand serves as a universal sign for requesting permission to speak.
Details
Glyph
🙋🏽♂
Unicode
U+1F64B U+1F3FD U+200D U+2642
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fd_200d_2642:
HTML Entity
����‍♂
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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