Oncoming fist: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A right-facing fist shown from the side with a medium skin tone. It captures the momentum of a punch or a friendly fist bump between friends.

Usage Context

This is a versatile icon used to express excitement, agreement, or a show of solidarity. It is frequently sent as a digital 'fist bump' to acknowledge a successful effort or to emphasize a point made in a conversation. It is often paired with the 💥 emoji to visualize impact or 🤝 to signal a deal.

History

Fist emojis evolved from early internet text-based emoticons like the common punch representations used in 90s chat rooms. It was officially integrated into the Unicode standard to provide a graphical way to express aggression or camaraderie in mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

👊🏽

Unicode

U+1F44A U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44a_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4A;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-closed

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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