Right-facing fist: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A clenched fist pointing to the right, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. The fingers are tightly curled, and the thumb is positioned over the knuckles, mimicking the posture of someone preparing to throw a punch or offering a closed-fist greeting.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent a fist bump between friends, a sign of solidarity, or a gesture of aggression. It is frequently sent as a non-verbal way to say 'let's do this' or to celebrate a shared victory. Users often pair it with its counterpart 🤛🏼 to visually complete a fist bump interaction in a chat thread.

History

Part of the effort to bring diverse representation to human-form emojis, this skin-tone variant was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. It evolved from the original yellow-toned fist, which traces its lineage back to the primitive graphic icons used in early mobile messaging platforms in Japan.

Details

Glyph

🤜🏼

Unicode

U+1F91C U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91c_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1C;&#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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