Right-facing fist: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-toned human fist shown in profile, oriented to strike or gesture toward the right. This icon displays a tightened hand with the thumb tucked over the knuckles, mimicking a punching motion or a forceful nudge.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent a fist bump, physical aggression, or the act of pushing something forward. It is often sent as a celebratory 'fist bump' when combined with the left-facing fist: dark skin tone emoji, or to signify support and solidarity.

History

The right-facing fist was added to the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of the broader effort to introduce skin tone modifiers, allowing for more diverse representations of human gestures based on the Fitzpatrick scale. It builds upon the original non-specific yellow fist symbols that date back to early Japanese mobile phone emoji sets.

Details

Glyph

🤜🏿

Unicode

U+1F91C U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91c_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1C;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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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