Person Raising Hand Emoji

What does the Person Raising Hand emoji mean?

🙋 is the Person Raising Hand emoji from the People & Body collection. Like other Unicode emojis, it provides a compact visual shorthand for person raising hand that enhances tone and clarity in digital communication. Its official Unicode assignment is U+1F64B, introduced with Emoji 1.0 in 2015. Once your system has an updated emoji font, the character renders consistently wherever you paste it. Hand and body symbols help where words lack physical presence. They clarify intent — whether you are waving, pointing, requesting, or celebrating — and add warmth to otherwise neutral text. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of person raising hand stays identical, so the emoji remains universally readable. You can copy this emoji as the character itself (🙋), as an HTML entity (🙋), or as a shortcode (:person-raising-hand:) for platforms like Slack, Discord, and GitHub.

This detailed meaning was written by the UseEmoji editorial team after reviewing Unicode CLDR data and real-world usage. For quick identification, think of this emoji as shorthand for person raising hand — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Person Raising Hand emoji

• In chat: Drop 🙋 into a sentence where you would normally write “person raising hand” to add tone and visual interest.
• On social media: Pair 🙋 with a keyword or hashtag to make captions more searchable and expressive.
• In documents and code: Use the HTML entity 🙋 or shortcode :person-raising-hand: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

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