Man raising hand Emoji

People

A man with a neutral expression lifting his right arm high into the air with an open palm. It portrays the physical action of volunteering, signaling for attention, or indicating presence in a group.

Usage Context

Widely used to say 'I know the answer' in a digital classroom setting or to volunteer for a task. It is frequently sent alongside the 🙋 or 🙋‍♀️ emojis to represent team participation or to grab someone's attention in a crowded chat thread.

History

This emoji was created by combining the base 'person raising hand' emoji with a gender modifier following the release of Unicode 7.0 and 8.0, which sought to provide more granular gender representation for human-based gestures that were previously depicted in a neutral format.

Details

Glyph

🙋‍♂

Unicode

U+1F64B U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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