The raised fist: dark skin tone emoji is the digital salute of solidarity, strength, and collective power—think protest posters meets group chat hype. It carries deep cultural weight, echoing the iconic Black Power salute and broader civil rights movements, while also signaling representation and pride in everyday conversations. You’ll see it in timelines rallying around justice, mutual aid, and community wins, but also sliding into texts as a quick “we got this,” “stand tall,” or “I’m with you.”
Online, it’s multitool energy: used to cheer on a friend’s milestone, caption a protest selfie, or add some defiant spice to “Monday vs. me” memes. It pairs beautifully with a megaphone, fire, and flexed biceps for maximum hype, or pops up humorously in “opening this stubborn jar like a final boss ✊🏿” moments. There’s room for irony too—dramatic fist when you finally find a parking spot, or when the group chat decides on dinner like a mini revolution.
On Apple/iOS, the look is instantly recognizable: a rich dark-brown, front-facing clenched fist with rounded, 3D shading; the knuckles are prominent, the thumb wraps over the fingers, and a short wrist stub anchors it. The style is clean and glossy with soft highlights—no sleeve, no extra props—just that bold, upright pose that feels ready to speak up. It’s a tiny icon with big presence: unity, resistance, and respect packed into one decisive gesture.
The Raised Fist emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2063 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Black 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270A, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9994, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8A, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 212, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270A, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270a, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9994, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270A 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270A, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9994, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\u270A\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270A\uD83C\uDFFF" |
