๐Ÿ™‹Person lifts hand smiley
๐Ÿ™‹

๐Ÿ™‹ Emoji meaning

I have a question! Cheerfully raising your hand, volunteering to speak, answering.

๐Ÿ™‹ Meaning

Person is cheerful and lifts a hand. Wants to be noticed and to say that he or she has a question or an answer.

Examples

  • Iโ€™m here! ๐Ÿ™‹
  • Iโ€™ll go first. ๐Ÿ™‹
  • Can I ask a question? ๐Ÿ™‹

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Person raising hand
โ†”

Person tipping hand vs raising hand; both involve raised arm and are used for โ€˜here I amโ€™ or sassy emphasis.

ZWJ Sequence

Person raising hand
โ†”
Man raising hand

Person raising hand vs man raising hand; all raising-hand variants can be read simply as โ€˜meโ€™ or volunteering.

Person raising hand
โ†”
Woman raising hand

Person raising hand vs woman raising hand; gender marker difference is small when icons are tiny.

Variants

Skin tones
Person raising hand
Person raising hand: light skin tone
Person raising hand: medium-light skin tone
Person raising hand: medium skin tone
Person raising hand: medium-dark skin tone
Person raising hand: dark skin tone
gender

U+1F64B U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F

Man raising hand
Skin tones
Man raising hand
Man raising hand: light skin tone
Man raising hand: medium-light skin tone
Man raising hand: medium skin tone
Man raising hand: medium-dark skin tone
Man raising hand: dark skin tone
gender

U+1F64B U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F

Woman raising hand
Skin tones
Woman raising hand
Woman raising hand: light skin tone
Woman raising hand: medium-light skin tone
Woman raising hand: medium skin tone
Woman raising hand: medium-dark skin tone
Woman raising hand: dark skin tone

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji โ€œPerson raising handโ€ was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ here + know + me + person + pick + question + raise + raising

Keywords removed

- happy - person raising hand - raised

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ person raising hand

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

happy person raising hand

Emoji title after

person raising hand

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ gesture + hand + happy + raised

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- happy

Similar emojis from "Gesture"

Select Emoji
Gesture
๐Ÿ™ Person frowning ๐Ÿ™Ž Person pouting ๐Ÿ™… Person gesturing NO ๐Ÿ™† Person gesturing OK ๐Ÿ’ Person tipping hand ๐Ÿ™‹ Person raising hand ๐Ÿง Deaf person ๐Ÿ™‡ Person bowing ๐Ÿคฆ Person facepalming ๐Ÿคท Person shrugging
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