✊Raised Fist Emoji
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. It’s a pretty direct signal of backing you up.
The ✊ emoji is a raised fist.
- Unicode
- U+270A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :fist:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the ✊ Raised Fist emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
People also look for it as fist emoji, punch emoji, clenched fist emoji.
Raised Fist emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the raised fist has been drawn in 5 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.
Raised Fist emoji skin tones
✊ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Raised Fist emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :fist:.
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+270A.
How to type the ✊ Raised Fist emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Raised Fist emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the raised 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
Raised Fist emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around raised 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
Who sent the raised fist and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What ✊ means in other countries
Carries real political weight in many contexts, tied to specific solidarity and resistance movements, not just “strength.”
strongly associated with civil rights and Black solidarity movements
a standard symbol of unity and resistance at rallies and online
also used loosely to mean determination or “stay strong” with no political intent
Before you send it: In political or activist threads it reads as a statement; in casual encouragement, context makes the intent obvious.
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: 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.
Unicode name: Oncoming Fist
Code: U+1F44A · added 2010
Shortcode: :facepunch:
Usually, 👊 means “I’m with you” or “Let’s do this!
Where the ✊ Raised Fist 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+270A 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 E693, KDDI au EB83, SoftBank E010.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Raised Fist was approved as U+270A 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.