Right-facing fist: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A clenched fist pointing to the right, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. The fingers are tightly curled, and the thumb is positioned over the knuckles, mimicking the posture of someone preparing to throw a punch or offering a closed-fist greeting.
Usage Context
Widely used to represent a fist bump between friends, a sign of solidarity, or a gesture of aggression. It is frequently sent as a non-verbal way to say 'let's do this' or to celebrate a shared victory. Users often pair it with its counterpart 🤛🏼 to visually complete a fist bump interaction in a chat thread.
History
Part of the effort to bring diverse representation to human-form emojis, this skin-tone variant was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. It evolved from the original yellow-toned fist, which traces its lineage back to the primitive graphic icons used in early mobile messaging platforms in Japan.
Details
Glyph
🤜🏼
Unicode
U+1F91C U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f91c_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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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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