Raised fist: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-toned hand shown in a tight, vertical fist, featuring a medium-dark skin tone. It represents a closed hand held high, conveying strength, defiance, or a salute.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to express support for social justice movements, solidarity, or resilience in the face of adversity. It is often paired with 💪🏾 to emphasize physical or mental toughness during protests or community organizing.
History
The raised fist has been a global political icon for decades, originating as a sign of unity for labor unions and civil rights groups. The skin-tone variations were added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 to allow users to better represent their identity when using the gesture.
Details
Glyph
✊🏾
Unicode
U+270A U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u270a_1f3fe:
HTML Entity
✊��
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-closed
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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