Right-facing fist: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-toned human fist shown in profile, oriented to strike or gesture toward the right. This icon displays a tightened hand with the thumb tucked over the knuckles, mimicking a punching motion or a forceful nudge.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to represent a fist bump, physical aggression, or the act of pushing something forward. It is often sent as a celebratory 'fist bump' when combined with the left-facing fist: dark skin tone emoji, or to signify support and solidarity.
History
The right-facing fist was added to the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of the broader effort to introduce skin tone modifiers, allowing for more diverse representations of human gestures based on the Fitzpatrick scale. It builds upon the original non-specific yellow fist symbols that date back to early Japanese mobile phone emoji sets.
Details
Glyph
🤜🏿
Unicode
U+1F91C U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f91c_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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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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