Raised fist

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Shortcode
:fist:
Shortcode
:fist_raised:
Unicode
U+270A
HTML
✊
CSS
\270A
JavaScript
"\u{270A}"
URL
%E2%9C%8A

clenchedfisthandpunchraisedsolidarity

What ✊ means

A clenched fist held high. ✊ stands for solidarity, strength, resistance and protest.

It appears in posts about civil rights, workers' movements and Black Lives Matter, often with a skin tone. It can also mean "stay strong" or "we've got this." In games, it is rock in rock-paper-scissors.

Facts

Raised fist ✊ is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand fingers closed. 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. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :fist: or :fist_raised:. People also look for it with words like “clenched”, “fist”, “hand”, or “punch”.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
  2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. raised fist, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. raised fist, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. raised fist, Google (Noto) design from 20222022
  4. raised fist, Google (Noto) design from 20242024

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. raised fist, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. raised fist, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

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

people & body · Unicode 6.0

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