Person raising hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A person with medium-light skin tone holding one arm straight up in the air. Their expression is neutral but attentive, mimicking someone signaling for attention in a classroom or a crowded room.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to choice for volunteering for a task, signaling that you have an answer to a question, or simply waving to get someone's notice in a digital chat. It is often used alongside the 🙋 or 🙋🏽 variants to indicate participation, or paired with the ✋ to emphasize a desire to stop or be heard.
History
Part of the effort to diversify the Unicode character set, this specific skin tone modifier was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. It evolved from the original yellow-faced emoji, drawing inspiration from the standard hand-raising iconography used in early computer-based education software and basic chat room user status indicators.
Details
Glyph
🙋🏼
Unicode
U+1F64B U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-gesture
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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