The raised fist: medium-dark skin tone is the digital salute of solidarity, resilience, and collective power—think protest signs, picket lines, and that iconic "power to the people" energy. It often shows up in posts about social justice, community wins, mutual aid, and moments when you want to say "we got this" without writing a paragraph. People also drop it after personal victories—aced the exam, hit a gym PR, finally sent the scary email—like a mini victory chant in emoji form. Sarcastically, it can land as a dramatic "I shall persevere" when the group chat is clowning about something trivial (like surviving Monday).
On Apple/iOS, the design shows a front-facing fist with knuckles prominent, thumb tucked over the fingers, and a smooth, medium-dark brown gradient—subtle highlights along the knuckles make it feel sculpted and bold. It’s not a fist-bump (that’s a different emoji), more the classic raised salute you’d see at rallies or on vintage posters from labor and civil rights movements. Online, it pairs well with megaphone emojis, fire, or clapping hands for maximum hype, and it’s frequently used to signal unity across timelines and causes. Drop it solo for emphasis, stack it in threes for rally-cry vibes, or mix it with a heart to show fierce love and support.
The Raised Fist emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2491 of 2393 |
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| 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: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270A, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9994, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8A, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 212, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270A, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270a, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9994, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270A 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270A, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9994, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\u270A\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270A\uD83C\uDFFE" |
