People & Body · Emoji 0.6
🙋Person Raising Hand Emoji
Generally, 🙋 means “I volunteer,” “I want to answer,” or “pick me.” It’s a way to show you’re available and interested in what’s being discussed.
The 🙋 emoji shows a person raising their hand.
- Unicode
- U+1F64B
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :raising_
hand: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🙋 Person Raising Hand emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
02 — Platforms
Person Raising Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F64B. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Person Raising Hand 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
Person Raising Hand emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :raising_hand:.
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+1F64B.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🙋 Person Raising Hand emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F64B when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Person Raising Hand 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
07 — Combinations
Person Raising Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around person raising hand 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🙋 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Around the world
What 🙋 means in other countries
A classic “I have a question” or “pick me” gesture, though recent slang gave it a sarcastic edge.
Reads literally as “I’ll answer”, “I know it”, or simply “count me in”.
Also used ironically to label “pick-me” behavior — seeking approval.
Common shorthand for “I’m in” or volunteering for something.
Before you send it: Fine for volunteering or RSVPs; younger audiences may occasionally read it as a “pick-me” jab.
10 — Apps
What 🙋 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F64B, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
🙋 vs 🙇 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Person Raising Hand
Code: U+1F64B · added 2010
Shortcode: :raising_hand:
Generally, 🙋 means “I volunteer,” “I want to answer,” or “pick me.”
Unicode name: Person Bowing
Code: U+1F647 · added 2010
Shortcode: :bow:
Generally, 🙇 means “I’m sorry” or “please forgive me.”
13 — History
Where the 🙋 Person Raising Hand 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+1F64B 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 EB85.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Person Raising Hand was approved as U+1F64B 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