Raised fist: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A cartoon-style hand held in a tight, vertical fist, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. The thumb is tucked against the side of the fingers, showing the knuckles facing forward.
Usage Context
This is a universal sign of strength, resistance, and defiance. It is frequently used to show support for social justice movements, political solidarity, or to signify determination during a struggle. It is often paired with the raised fist: dark skin tone or the flexed biceps to emphasize power and group unity.
History
The raised fist has been a globally recognized icon for political activism and civil rights movements since the early 20th century. While the base fist emoji was standardized in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the ability to modify the skin tone was added in 2015 to allow users to better represent diverse human identity in digital communication.
Details
Glyph
✊🏼
Unicode
U+270A U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u270a_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
✊��
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-closed
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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