Woman raising hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with medium-light skin holding one arm straight up in the air. Her palm faces forward, mimicking the classic classroom posture for getting a teacher's attention.

Usage Context

Used to signal that someone has an answer, needs to ask a question, or is volunteering for a task. People also use it to say 'I'm here' or to get noticed in a crowded digital conversation. It is often used alongside emojis like 🙋‍♂️ to indicate gender or ✋ to emphasize the hand gesture.

History

The woman raising hand was added to the Unicode standard to provide gender-specific versions of earlier, generic person-based gestures. It reflects the shift toward more diverse representation in messaging apps, building on the basic poses found in early Japanese mobile carrier emoji sets from the late 1990s.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏼‍♀

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fc_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.

Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.

MIT License Fluent Emoji Repository