People & Body · Emoji 4.0
🙋♀️Woman Raising Hand Emoji
Generally, it means “me” or “I want to join in.” People often use it in chats to signal they have an answer or want to be picked.
The 🙋♀️ emoji is a woman with her hand raised.
- Unicode
- U+1F64B U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :woman-
raising- hand: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🙋♀️ Woman Raising Hand emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
02 — Platforms
Woman 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 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman 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
Woman 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 :woman-raising-hand:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F64B.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🙋♀️ Woman Raising Hand emoji
No picker to hand? The woman raising hand can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Woman Raising Hand emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Woman Raising Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🙋♀️ means in other countries
Same volunteering gesture as the plain figure, but it’s the version most tied to the “pick-me” meme.
Frequently captions “pick-me” content about seeking approval, used sarcastically.
Still works literally for “I know” or “me!” in a group question.
Occasionally used self-deprecatingly, playing into the same meme.
Before you send it: Context matters here — for a genuine question it’s fine; as a caption it may read as a dig.
10 — 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.
12 — Difference
🙋♀️ vs 🙇♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Raising Hand
Code: U+1F64B U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-raising-hand:
Generally, it means “me” or “I want to join in.”
Unicode name: Woman Bowing
Code: U+1F647 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-bowing:
Generally, 🙇♀️ means you’re deeply sorry or expressing a lot of respect.
13 — History
Where the 🙋♀️ Woman Raising Hand emoji came from
It arrived with the 4.0 release of the standard, which dates the woman raising hand to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F64B U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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.
Woman Raising Hand was approved as U+1F64B U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🙋♀️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ