Person raising hand: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A person with a medium skin tone holding one arm straight up in the air with an open palm. The figure typically shows a neutral facial expression, signaling an attempt to grab someone's attention.
Usage Context
Widely used in digital chats to indicate that the sender has a question, wants to volunteer for a task, or is saying 'pick me!' It functions much like a student raising their hand in a classroom or a participant signaling to a speaker. It is frequently grouped with the 🙋 and 🙋🏿 variants to represent diverse groups or used alongside ✋ to emphasize the act of reaching out.
History
This emoji originated from the early days of mobile messaging in Japan, where specific gestures were codified to replace missing body language in text-only communication. It was officially standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, with skin tone modifiers added later in 2015 to allow users to better represent themselves.
Details
Glyph
🙋🏽
Unicode
U+1F64B U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fd:
HTML Entity
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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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