🤛Left-facing Fist Emoji
Basically, it’s a way of saying “high five” but facing to the left. It’s a friendly gesture to acknowledge someone or show you’re on the same page.
The 🤛 emoji is a fist pointing to the left.
- Unicode
- U+1F91B
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :left-facing_fist:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🤛 Left-facing Fist emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Left-facing Fist emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F91B — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your left-facing fist looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Left-facing Fist emoji skin tones
🤛 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Left-facing Fist emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :left-facing_fist:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F91B.
How to type the 🤛 Left-facing Fist emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Left-facing 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
Left-facing Fist emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around left-facing 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🤛 means in other countries
Only exists as half of a matched pair with its right-facing twin, and reads as a fist bump wherever it shows up.
sent together with 🤜 to mean “deal,” “nice one,” or a virtual high-five
still reads as a friendly greeting gesture, just less common without its pair
Before you send it: Works well paired with 🤜 for a clean, friendly close to a message; rarely misread on its own.
What 🤛 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F91B, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🤛 vs ✊ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Left-facing Fist
Code: U+1F91B · added 2016
Shortcode: :left-facing_fist:
Basically, it’s a way of saying “high five” but facing to the left.
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 🤛 Left-facing Fist emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the left-facing fist has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F91B 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.
Left-facing Fist was approved as U+1F91B and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (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, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.