The oncoming fist: dark skin tone is the internet’s classic “fist bump” in rich, dark‑chocolate brown—equal parts hype, respect, and “let’s go!” It’s what you send when you want to seal a win, back a friend, or co‑sign a spicy take without typing a paragraph. In meme-speak, it doubles as the brofist/dap/knucks trifecta and can read as either friendly power-up or playful “square up” energy, depending on context. The skin tone modifier lets people represent themselves or their crew more personally, which matters in convos where identity and community shine.
On Apple/iOS, the knuckles face you head‑on, with a rounded, slightly glossy 3D look, gentle highlights across the knuckle ridge, and the thumb tucked under on the viewer’s left. The fist extends from a short wrist with soft shading, giving it that comic-book “POW!” perspective without going full Batman BAM caption. You’ll see it paired with 💥, ✨, or 💪 to punctuate a victory, a PR at the gym, or a clutch save in games—and sometimes alongside 🤜🤛 for maximum bump theatrics. Sarcastically, people drop it after a sassy one-liner as a “delivered” stamp, or flirtatiously as a teasing “light jab” that still reads supportive. Cultural shout-outs include the sports sideline dap and the widely memed Obama fist-bump moment, plus the YouTube-era brofist sign-off. Translation: this tiny punch carries big community vibes—confidence, camaraderie, and a clean finish to the message.
The Fisted Hand Sign emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2490 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: | Black Fisted Hand Sign |
| 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) | 1f44a, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44A, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128074, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8A, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8A, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 212, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4A, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4a, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56394, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44A 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44A, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128074, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44A\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8a\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4A\uD83C\uDFFF" |
