Right-facing fist: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A clenched fist facing to the right, rendered in a medium skin tone. It shows a tight grip with the knuckles positioned forward, representing a physical strike or a gesture of solidarity.

Usage Context

Frequently used to represent a fist bump or the act of hitting something. It is often combined with 🤛🏽 to show a successful fist bump greeting between friends or colleagues. It can also stand in for themes of strength, aggression, or celebration.

History

Fist emojis were standardized in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, with skin tone modifiers arriving in 2015 via the Unicode 8.0 update. This was part of a major industry effort to bring greater human representation to mobile messaging platforms, moving beyond the standard yellow cartoon colors that dominated early text-based chat applications.

Details

Glyph

🤜🏽

Unicode

U+1F91C U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91c_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1C;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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