Person raising hand

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Shortcode
:raising_hand:
Shortcode
:person_raising_hand:
Unicode
U+1F64B
HTML
🙋
CSS
\1F64B
JavaScript
"\u{1F64B}"
URL
%F0%9F%99%8B

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What ๐Ÿ™‹ means

A person with one hand raised high. ๐Ÿ™‹ means "me!" "pick me," or "I have a question."

Volunteering, asking a question in a group chat or claiming the last slice all fit. It is upbeat and eager, and it works well in work chat when someone asks who can take a task.

Facts

Person raising hand ๐Ÿ™‹ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :raising_hand: or :person_raising_hand:. People also look for it with words like โ€œgestureโ€, โ€œhandโ€, โ€œhereโ€, or โ€œknowโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
  2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)
  3. 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. person raising hand, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. person raising hand, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. person raising hand, Google (Noto) design from 20192019
  4. person raising hand, Google (Noto) design from 20202020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. person raising hand, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. person raising hand, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  3. person raising hand, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Unicode 6.0

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