Person raising hand emoji ๐
Emoji 0.6 (2010) ยท U+1F64B
Skin tones ยท Tap a tone to copy it.
What ๐ means
The keywords Unicode lists for ๐ are gesture, hand, here, know, me, person, pick, question, raise, raising. They show what people use it for.
Search for gesture or hand on your emoji keyboard and ๐ is among the results.
You will find ๐ among the people gesturing (30 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include ๐โโ๏ธ ๐โโ๏ธ ๐ง ๐งโโ๏ธ.
Besides the default yellow, ๐ has 5 skin tones, from ๐๐ป light to ๐๐ฟ dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will ๐ show on my friend's phone?
One of the first emoji ever: ๐ is part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, the set that started on Japanese phones. It shows everywhere.
How to type ๐
Search for person raising hand in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find ๐.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person raising hand.
- Mac: press Ctrl+โ+Space and type person raising hand in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person raising hand.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, ๐ is one code point (U+1F64B), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F64B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🙋 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🙋 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F64B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F64B} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%99%8B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 99 8B |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of ๐ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | person raising hand |
| Portuguรชs | pessoa levantando a mรฃo |
| Espaรฑol | persona con la mano levantada |
| Italiano | persona con mano alzata |
| Franรงais | personne qui lรจve la main |
| Deutsch | Person mit erhobenem Arm |
| Tรผrkรงe | elini kaldฤฑrma |
| Bahasa Indonesia | orang mengangkat tangan |
| Polski | osoba podnoszฤ ca rฤkฤ |
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ัะตะปะพะฒะตะบ ั ะฟะพะดะฝััะพะน ััะบะพะน |
| ๆฅๆฌ่ช | ๆใๆใใไบบ |
| ํ๊ตญ์ด | ํ ์ ๋ ์ฌ๋ |
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All people & body emoji โQuestions people ask
What does the person raising hand emoji mean?
Unicode calls ๐ "person raising hand" and links it with gesture, hand, here, know. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people gesturing subgroup of people & body.
When was the person raising hand emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
Can I change the skin tone of ๐?
Yes. ๐ has these skin tones: ๐๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฝ ๐๐พ ๐๐ฟ. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.