Woman raising hand Emoji

People

A woman with her arm fully extended upward, often signifying an eagerness to participate, ask a question, or get someone's attention.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for volunteering for a task, signaling you know the answer in a chat, or just waving to get noticed in a crowded thread. It pairs well with the neutral 🙋 or the male version 🙋‍♂️ when assigning roles in a group discussion.

History

Initially, Unicode represented human figures in a gender-neutral way. The woman raising hand variant was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) as a basic gesture, and later evolved into a gender-specific emoji in 2016 to allow for more precise representation of diverse user identities on mobile messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🙋‍♀

Unicode

U+1F64B U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64b_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4B;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

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

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