Man raising hand: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned man raising his hand above his head. He appears to be alerting someone to his presence or signaling a desire to speak, often implying he has an answer or a suggestion.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for digital classrooms or group chats when someone wants to volunteer, ask a question, or get attention. It functions like a virtual classroom hand-raise and is frequently used alongside the 🙋 or 🙋🏽‍♀️ variants to represent diverse participation in a conversation.

History

While the basic raising hand gesture has been part of early emoji sets, the ability to apply skin tone modifiers like this was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update was a major push to make digital communication more representative of global populations across mobile messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏿‍♂

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3ff_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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