🙆Person Gesturing Ok Emoji
Generally, when someone uses 🙆 in a text, they mean “yes,” “okay,” or that they approve of what you said. It’s a quick and easy way to show you understand and agree.
The 🙆 emoji, also known as “Person Gesturing OK,” shows a person making a thumbs-up gesture.
- Unicode
- U+1F646
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :ok_woman:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🙆 Person Gesturing Ok emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
Person Gesturing Ok emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the person gesturing ok has been drawn in 4 ways.
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.
Person Gesturing Ok emoji skin tones
🙆 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Person Gesturing Ok emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :ok_woman:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F646.
How to type the 🙆 Person Gesturing Ok emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F646 when there is no key at all.
Person Gesturing Ok 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
Person Gesturing Ok emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person gesturing ok 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🙆 means in other countries
The circular-arm pose is Japan’s real “maru” gesture for correct or yes, less literal read elsewhere.
Used literally on quiz shows and daily life to mean “correct” or “yes”, opposite the crossed-arm no.
Often read more loosely as celebration or “all good” rather than a specific yes signal.
Sometimes mistaken for a dance or victory pose rather than the original meaning.
Before you send it: Works well with Japanese contacts; elsewhere pair it with words if you need a precise “yes”.
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.
🙆 vs 🙇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Gesturing Ok
Code: U+1F646 · added 2010
Shortcode: :ok_woman:
Generally, when someone uses 🙆 in a text, they mean “yes,” “okay,” or that they approve of what you said.
Unicode name: Person Bowing
Code: U+1F647 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bow:
Generally, 🙇 means “I’m sorry” or “please forgive me.
Where the 🙆 Person Gesturing Ok 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+1F646 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 E70B, KDDI au EAD8, SoftBank E424.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person Gesturing Ok was approved as U+1F646 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.