Woman raising hand: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with light skin holding one arm straight up in the air with her palm facing forward. Her facial expression remains neutral while she signals for attention or acknowledges a request.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for volunteering to help, asking a question in a virtual classroom, or signaling that you have an answer. It acts as a digital version of a student waving their hand in a crowded room. It pairs well with 🙋‍♂️ for gender neutrality or 🙋 for the generic version.

History

The base gesture was part of the original Unicode emoji set to mimic physical hand-raising behaviors common in office and school environments. The ability to modify skin tones was added in 2015, followed by the specific gender-based variants in 2016 to allow for more accurate representation of the person performing the action.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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