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Meaning & usage
What does the Raised Fist emoji mean?
A raised fist, for solidarity, resolve and celebration.
Determined. Its political meaning is long established, so it carries more weight than the fist bump 👊.
How to use ✊ naturally
Support messages, protest posts and marking a small victory.
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, Raised 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
A closed fist raised palm forward, from the carrier set. The raised-fist salute has carried the same meaning for over a century, and skin tone support made it more specific again.
- Today
How its use evolved
Support messages, protest posts and marking a small victory.
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.
With you on this ✊
Held the line all week ✊
Finally got the result ✊
When to use it
Using ✊ clearly
Support messages, protest posts and marking a small victory. It lands as fist emoji or ✊ meaning 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 raised fist emoji
What does ✊ mean in a text message?
A raised fist, for solidarity, resolve and celebration. Determined. Its political meaning is long established, so it carries more weight than the fist bump 👊.
Is ✊ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are fist emoji, ✊ meaning, solidarity emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does ✊ look different on another device?
U+270A 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 raised 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 raised 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+270A | 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 | \270A | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{270A} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %E2%9C%8A | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+270A
- Category
- Hands & Gestures
- Also known as
- fist emoji✊ meaningsolidarity emoji
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