🤜Right-facing Fist Emoji
Generally, 🤜 means “high five” or a friendly acknowledgment. People use it to show they agree with something or to congratulate someone.
The 🤜 emoji is a right-facing fist.
- Unicode
- U+1F91C
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :right-facing_fist:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🤜 Right-facing Fist emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
Right-facing Fist emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the right-facing fist as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Right-facing Fist emoji skin tones
🤜 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Right-facing Fist 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 :right-facing_fist:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F91C.
How to type the 🤜 Right-facing Fist emoji
No picker to hand? The right-facing fist can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Right-facing Fist emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the right-facing fist as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Right-facing Fist emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around right-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
The mirror half of the fist-bump pair, carrying the same friendly meaning as its left-facing counterpart.
closes out 🤛🤜 as a virtual fist bump between two people agreeing on something
reads as a casual nod of approval or camaraderie even without the matching emoji
Before you send it: Send it right after 🤛 for a clear fist-bump; alone it still reads as friendly, not confrontational.
What 🤜 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F91C, 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: Right-facing Fist
Code: U+1F91C · added 2016
Shortcode: :right-facing_fist:
Generally, 🤜 means “high five” or a friendly acknowledgment.
Unicode name: Backhand Index Pointing Right
Code: U+1F449 · added 2010
Shortcode: :point_right:
It usually means “look over there” or “that’s the way.
Where the 🤜 Right-facing Fist emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F91C 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.
Right-facing Fist was approved as U+1F91C 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.