The raised fist: light skin tone is the classic solidarity symbol—equal parts protest poster, gym hype, and group-chat rally cry. It says power, unity, and “we got this,” whether you’re pushing for change, hyping a friend’s big day, or celebrating a PR at the squat rack. People use it for encouragement, resistance, and respect, but also ironically—like flexing through Monday emails or surviving a brutal Wi‑Fi outage with heroic dignity. Culturally, the raised fist has long signaled collective strength in labor and civil rights movements; online, it doubles as a quick send of courage and allyship.
On Apple devices, it’s a vertical right-hand fist with knuckles facing forward, thumb tucked across the fingers, and a soft light‑peach tone, shaded with subtle highlights and a stub of forearm—clean, bold, and instantly recognizable. In memes, it’s the go-to for “let’s gooo,” “big mood,” and “send strength,” often paired with fire or sparkles for extra drama. You’ll see it in activism hashtags, post‑workout selfies, and under a friend’s comeback story, and sometimes as playful punctuation after a pep talk. It can even read flirt-adjacent confidence—like a smooth “say less, I’m on my way”—without going full thirst trap.
The Raised Fist emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2023 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | White 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, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270A, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9994, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8A, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 212, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270A, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270a, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9994, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270A 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270A, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9994, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\u270A\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270A\uD83C\uDFFB" |
