Raised fist: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoon-style hand held in a tight, vertical fist, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. The thumb is tucked against the side of the fingers, showing the knuckles facing forward.

Usage Context

This is a universal sign of strength, resistance, and defiance. It is frequently used to show support for social justice movements, political solidarity, or to signify determination during a struggle. It is often paired with the raised fist: dark skin tone or the flexed biceps to emphasize power and group unity.

History

The raised fist has been a globally recognized icon for political activism and civil rights movements since the early 20th century. While the base fist emoji was standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the ability to modify the skin tone was added in 2015 to allow users to better represent diverse human identity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

✊🏼

Unicode

U+270A U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u270a_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

✊&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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

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