Woman raising hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with medium-dark skin raising one arm straight up in the air. Her palm faces forward, mimicking the classic classroom gesture used to ask a question or volunteer for a task.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for signaling that you have an answer, need to grab someone's attention, or are expressing excitement to participate. It is frequently used in group chats when someone asks a question and you want to be the first to respond. It shares a similar intent with the 🙋 or 🙋‍♂️ emojis but specifies gender and skin tone to better reflect the user.

History

The base raising hand emoji dates back to early mobile messaging standards, but the ability to modify skin tones and gender was introduced in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update was a major step in the push for more inclusive digital representation, allowing users to move beyond the generic yellow characters that dominated early internet communication.

Details

Glyph

🙋🏾‍♀

Unicode

U+1F64B U+1F3FE U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_1f3fe_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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