People & Body · Emoji 0.6
💪Flexed Biceps Emoji
Generally, it just means “strong” or “powerful.” People use it to show they’re feeling confident or to support someone else.
Also searched as strong arm emoji.
The 💪 emoji is all about strength.
- Unicode
- U+1F4AA
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :muscle:
- Skin tones
- Yes
- Popularity
- #34 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 💪 Flexed Biceps emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 14.
People also look for it as strong emoji, gym emoji, muscle arm emoji, arm flex emoji, flex arm emoji, muscle emoji, strong arm emoji, arm emoji.
02 — Platforms
Flexed Biceps emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the flexed biceps has been drawn in 4 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Flexed Biceps emoji skin tones
💪 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Flexed Biceps emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :muscle:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F4AA.
05 — How to type
How to type the 💪 Flexed Biceps emoji
No picker to hand? The flexed biceps can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Flexed Biceps 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Flexed Biceps emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around flexed biceps for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →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.
09 — In conversation
What 💪 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
10 — Around the world
What 💪 means in other countries
Reads as encouragement or strength almost everywhere, with the only real variance being how boastful it feels.
a “you got this” or celebrating a win at the gym, straightforward encouragement
can come across as a bit boastful if used to describe your own achievement rather than someone else’s
Before you send it: Great for cheering someone else on; when it’s about your own win, pair it with modesty in the words.
11 — Apps
What 💪 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
13 — History
Where the 💪 Flexed Biceps 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+1F4AA 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
KDDI au E4E9, SoftBank E14C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Flexed Biceps was approved as U+1F4AA 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.
14 — FAQ