Man raising hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin raising one arm straight up with an open palm. The gesture mimics a student signaling to a teacher in a classroom or someone catching the attention of a server in a busy room.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for volunteering information, asking a question, or signaling agreement in a group chat. It serves as a digital version of 'pick me!' or 'I have the answer.' It is frequently used alongside the neutral 🙋 or the woman variant 🙋🏾‍♀️ to maintain consistency in discussions.

History

While the base raising hand gesture has been part of early emoji sets since the late 90s, the ability to modify the skin tone was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update was a major push to make digital communication reflect the diversity of real-world populations.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

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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