On Apple, this variant shows a front-facing, upright clenched fist in a warm medium-light peach shade, with smooth gradients, rounded knuckles, and the thumb resting over the fingers; the subtle shading along the knuckle ridges and wrist crease makes it instantly identifiable. It’s the medium-light skin tone version of the raised fist.
In chats it often reads as “say less,” “locked in,” or a respectful nod of agreement—and many people press it into service as a casual fist bump, even though the oncoming fist is the more literal match. You’ll spot it in everyday hype too: celebrating a nailed deadline, a new gym PR, or simply making it through Monday without crying into your latte. It also plays well for tongue-in-cheek triumphs—opening a stubborn pickle jar—because a little theatrical flair is half the internet’s charm. Beyond the day-to-day, it’s a digital salute for solidarity and strength, showing up in posts about standing together: activism, labor wins, and community support.
Culturally, the raised fist is a long-standing emblem of resistance and unity, closely tied to civil rights and labor movements and the Black Power salute, and now used across many causes to signal collective power. Pair it with the flexed biceps, fire, or a megaphone to amplify those “power to the people” vibes. It’s earnest, rallying, sometimes dramatic, and always ready to back your squad—online and off.
The Raised Fist emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2181 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: | Light Brown 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270A, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9994, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8A, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 212, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270A, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270a, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9994, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270A 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270A, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9994, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\u270A\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270A\uD83C\uDFFC" |
