The raised fist: medium skin tone is the internet’s go-to symbol for solidarity, power, and “we got this” energy. It shows up in posts about social justice, mutual support, and community wins—think rallies, fundraisers, and team huddles—while also doubling as a hype button for gym PRs, exam slays, and Monday survival. It carries heavy historical resonance from labor movements to contemporary activism and Black Lives Matter, so it reads as serious support, not just casual hype. People also use it wryly—like declaring solidarity with your past self who remembered to defrost the chicken, ✊—because meme culture loves a dramatic flourish for tiny victories.
On Apple/iOS, the design is a tan-brown clenched fist held upright with the knuckles facing forward, thumb tucked across the index and middle fingers, and a short wrist showing; soft gradients give it that rounded, almost 3D feel. It’s instantly recognizable as the “power fist,” not a fist-bump—different emoji alert: the bump is 👊. In texts and captions, it pairs smoothly with rallying cries ("stand together," "solidarity always"), workout or game-day hype, and allyship statements. Expect it in group chats when someone says "I’m with you," or in timelines where people anchor a cause, a community, or just the collective struggle of doing life before coffee.
The Raised Fist emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3426 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture | ![]() |
| Google Android Picture | ![]() |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned Raised Fist |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ✊🏽 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ✊🏽 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ✊ 🏽 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ✊ 🏽 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 270a, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270A, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9994, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8A, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 212, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270A, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270a, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9994, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270A 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270A, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9994, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\u270A\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270A\uD83C\uDFFD" |