👊Oncoming Fist Emoji
Usually, 👊 means “I’m with you” or “Let’s do this! ” It's a way to show support and enthusiasm.
The 👊 emoji, also known as “Oncoming Fist,” shows a clenched fist moving forward.
- Unicode
- U+1F44A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :facepunch:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👊 Oncoming Fist emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as fist bump emoji, bruh emoji.
Oncoming Fist emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F44A. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Oncoming Fist emoji skin tones
👊 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Oncoming Fist emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :facepunch:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F44A.
How to type the 👊 Oncoming Fist emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Oncoming Fist emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Oncoming Fist emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around oncoming fist for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👊, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👊 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 👊 means in other countries
Meant as a friendly fist bump, but without a warm context it can just as easily read as an incoming punch.
a fist bump substitute, a friendly hello or “nice work” between peers
sent alone in a tense thread, it can read as confrontational rather than congratulatory
Before you send it: Pair it with words or another emoji so it reads as a bump of approval, not a fist thrown at someone.
What 👊 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the oncoming fist lands changes how it is taken.
👊 vs ✊ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Oncoming Fist
Code: U+1F44A · added 2010
Shortcode: :facepunch:
Usually, 👊 means “I’m with you” or “Let’s do this!
Unicode name: Raised Fist
Code: U+270A · added 2010
Shortcode: :fist:
Generally, when someone sends you the ✊ emoji, they’re showing support for something you’re fighting for, or just expressing a feeling of strength and solidarity with you.
Where the 👊 Oncoming Fist emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F44A never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👊 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6FD, KDDI au E4F3, SoftBank E00D.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Oncoming Fist was approved as U+1F44A and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👊 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.