🙆‍♂️

Man Gesturing OK Emoji 🙆‍♂️

What 🙆‍♂️ means

From the shoulders up, this man has short, side-parted hair and holds both hands together in the air. This emoji evokes a sense of being relaxed, casual, and confident to some extent.

The 🙆‍♂️ Man Gesturing OK emoji also looks like the man holding both his hands on his head, the kind of gesture you'd have while watching TV. Hence, it can signify comfort, calm, composure, and peace.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.

How and when to use it

If someone is trying to impress you or do you favor in a romantic sense, so much that you're starting to feel a little special, use 🙆‍♂️ in your responses to such sweet, favorable stuff (puns intended).
If you warned someone against doing something and they came back to tell you that it all went bad, you can use 🙆‍♂️ as a way of saying "What did I tell you" or "Told ya".
Use 🙆‍♂️ in captions while posting anything about being relaxed, chilling, and confident, like "I got this 🙆‍♂️".
If you or someone you know closely recently joined ballet and you're posting about it, you can use this 🙆‍♂️ emoji (because it does look like the top half of a ballet dancer's posture).

Other Names

🙆‍♂️ Relaxed
🙆‍♂️ Chilled Out
🙆‍♂️ Laid-Back
🙆‍♂️ Casual
🙆‍♂️ Confident
🙆‍♂️ Approving
🙆‍♂️ Accepting
🙆‍♂️ Cool
🙆‍♂️ Ballerino
🙆‍♂️ Chilling
🙆‍♂️ Peace
🙆‍♂️ Yoga

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F646 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-gesturing-ok: Slack:man_gesturing_ok: Discord
Keywords: exercise, gesture, gesturing, hand, man, OK, omg
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.