Oncoming Fist Emoji
A fist coming towards you, used as the punch and fist bump emoji.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Oncoming Fist emoji mean?
A fist coming towards you, used as the punch and fist bump emoji.
Friendly between friends and aggressive in an argument. Context decides whether it is a bump or a punch.
How to use 👊 naturally
Fist bumps between friends, agreement and joking threats.
Hand gestures can be direct and efficient, which makes them useful in quick replies. Their tone varies across cultures and age groups, so a short accompanying phrase can prevent ambiguity.
From standard to slang
The history of 👊
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Oncoming Fist was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
From the carrier set, a closed fist seen from the front. Unicode also has the raised fist ✊ and left and right fists 🤛🤜, but this is the one people use for a fist bump.
- Today
How its use evolved
Fist bumps between friends, agreement and joking threats.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 👊 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Nice one, mate 👊
Let's do this 👊
Deal 👊
When to use it
Using 👊 clearly
Fist bumps between friends, agreement and joking threats. It lands as punch emoji or fist bump emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the oncoming fist emoji
What does 👊 mean in a text message?
A fist coming towards you, used as the punch and fist bump emoji. Friendly between friends and aggressive in an argument. Context decides whether it is a bump or a punch.
Is 👊 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are punch emoji, fist bump emoji, 👊 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 👊 look different on another device?
U+1F44A identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the oncoming fist emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 👊 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the oncoming fist emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 👊 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
👊 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F44A | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 👊 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 👊 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F44A | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F44A} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%91%8A | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F44A
- Category
- Hands & Gestures
- Also known as
- punch emojifist bump emoji👊 meaning
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