Man raising hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A man with a medium-light skin tone waving his arm upward with an open palm. The gesture mimics a student in a classroom or someone in a crowd attempting to catch another person’s attention.

Usage Context

Widely used to signal that someone knows the answer to a question, is volunteering for a task, or simply wants to speak in a digital conversation. It is often used in tandem with the 🙋 or 🙋‍♀ emojis to identify a specific person in a group, or with the 🙋‍♂️ emoji to emphasize a masculine identity.

History

While the basic raised hand gesture has been part of early internet iconography for decades, this specific skin-tone-modified version was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 as part of an effort to bring better representation to human-form characters across diverse digital platforms.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏼‍♂

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FC U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fc_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♂

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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