Woman raising hand: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with light skin holding one arm straight up in the air with her palm facing forward. Her facial expression remains neutral while she signals for attention or acknowledges a request.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for volunteering to help, asking a question in a virtual classroom, or signaling that you have an answer. It acts as a digital version of a student waving their hand in a crowded room. It pairs well with 🙋‍♂️ for gender neutrality or 🙋 for the generic version.

History

The base gesture was part of the original Unicode emoji set to mimic physical hand-raising behaviors common in office and school environments. The ability to modify skin tones was added in 2015, followed by the specific gender-based variants in 2016 to allow for more accurate representation of the person performing the action.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository