🙋‍♂️

Man Raising Hand Emoji 🙋‍♂️

What 🙋‍♂️ means

Side-parted hair and a smile mark this man, head and shoulders in frame, raising his right hand level with his head. This emoji can have three broad significances; answering/asking a question, confirming one's presence, and a form of greeting someone.

Besides the broader categories, the 🙋‍♂️ Man Raising Hand emoji can also mean standing up for an opinion or even supporting someone or something. It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms, and would similarly vary in the clothing style and color.

How and when to use it

If someone in your most favorite group chat said something that you totally support and stand by, send 🙋‍♂️ to show that emotion.
You can also use 🙋‍♂️ to say that you're present or awake (in case its a late-night group chat) in a group channel. It can be used even in private chats, but only in cases where the other person cannot see your online status.
🙋‍♂️ can be used as a reaction to anything that you liked on social media; like an inspirational post or a post about a niche that you love as a way of showing that you support it.
You can use 🙋‍♂️ as a form of virtually greeting someone, like "Hey! 🙋‍♂️".
Use 🙋‍♂️ in a group chat as a "May I?" context, either for asking or answering a question.

Other Names

🙋‍♂️ Hey!
🙋‍♂️ Greeting
🙋‍♂️ Answering Question
🙋‍♂️ Asking Something
🙋‍♂️ Inquiry
🙋‍♂️ Present
🙋‍♂️ Awake
🙋‍♂️ In Here
🙋‍♂️ Happy Man Raising Hand
🙋‍♂️ Supportive
🙋‍♂️ Good Vibe
🙋‍♂️ Good Mood

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F64B U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-raising-hand: Slack:man_raising_hand: Discord
Keywords: gesture, hand, here, know, man, me, pick, question, raise, raising
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.