A person holding up one palm beside the shoulder. ๐ began as an information desk worker; now it mostly means sass, a hair flip, or "just saying."
It follows a confident or cheeky remark, or gossip told with flair. It can add sarcasm, as in "well, I tried ๐." Read literally, it still means "here's the info."
Facts
Person tipping hand ๐ 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 :information_desk_person: or :tipping_hand_person:. People also look for it with words like โfetchโ, โflickโ, โflipโ, or โgossipโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
- 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ
Design history
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
people & body ยท Unicode 6.0