Woman raising hand: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned woman with her arm raised high in the air, open-palmed. This figure represents someone actively volunteering, asking a question, or drawing attention to themselves in a group setting.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to signal eagerness to participate or to say 'me!' when someone asks for a volunteer. It acts as a digital version of raising your hand in a classroom or a meeting. It is often paired with the 🙋🏽‍♂️ or 🙋🏻 emojis to show a diverse group of people reacting to a prompt.

History

The base raising hand gesture has been part of the Unicode standard since 2010, but the ability to modify the skin tone was added in 2015 with the rollout of the Fitzpatrick scale modifiers. These additions were developed to make digital communication feel more personal and representative of the global population.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏿‍♀

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FF U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3ff_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♀

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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