Person raising hand: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a medium skin tone holding one arm straight up in the air with an open palm. The figure typically shows a neutral facial expression, signaling an attempt to grab someone's attention.

Usage Context

Widely used in digital chats to indicate that the sender has a question, wants to volunteer for a task, or is saying 'pick me!' It functions much like a student raising their hand in a classroom or a participant signaling to a speaker. It is frequently grouped with the 🙋 and 🙋🏿 variants to represent diverse groups or used alongside ✋ to emphasize the act of reaching out.

History

This emoji originated from the early days of mobile messaging in Japan, where specific gestures were codified to replace missing body language in text-only communication. It was officially standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, with skin tone modifiers added later in 2015 to allow users to better represent themselves.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏽

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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

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