Left-facing fist: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A closed fist oriented to the left, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. The hand is angled as if it is about to make contact with an object or another person's hand.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent a fist bump, a gesture of celebration, agreement, or a friendly greeting. It serves as a digital stand-in for shared success or solidarity. People often pair it with 👊 or 🤜🏼 to complete the motion of a bump between two parties.

History

The left-facing fist was added to the Unicode standard in 2015 alongside other directional fist gestures. Its inclusion was part of a major update to provide a more diverse range of human gestures and skin tone modifiers to better match the nuances of real-world communication.

Details

Glyph

🤛🏼

Unicode

U+1F91B U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91b_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-closed

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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