Angled to the right, this emoji completes the fist-bump duo with its left-facing counterpart, the two lining up to mimic a real knuckle bump in a message. Solo, it carries the same 'nice one' or 'we're good' energy as any fist bump.
What 🤜 means
An held out left hand, with a clenched fist pointing in the right direction (no puns intended). This emoji appears as a fist bump response to the 🤛 Left Facing Fist emoji.
The 🤜 Right-Facing Fist indicates friendship, warmth, teamwork support, motivation, appreciation, acknowledgment, and playfulness. It is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.
How and when to use it
- The most common use of 🤜 emoji is a fist bump.
- Send 🤜 as a response to your friend's 🤛 Left Facing Fist emoji, as a way of completing the fist bump. It can be used to show that both of you agree on the same thing.
- Use 🤜 emoji as a way of playfully nudging on chat if the other person was the instigator.
- Use 🤜 emoji in contexts of appreciation, support, 'inside jokes', and even encouragement.
Other Names
- 🤜 Fist Bump
- 🤜 Awesome
- 🤜 Cool
- 🤜 Appreciation
- 🤜 Approval
- 🤜 Okay
- 🤜 Acceptance
- 🤜 Inside Jokes
- 🤜 Pals
- 🤜 Friends
- 🤜 Playfulness
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hand-fingers-closed
- Codepoints
U+1F91C- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:fist_right:GitHub:right-facing_fist:Slack:right_facing_fist:Discord:right_fist:Discord- Keywords
- fist, right-facing, rightwards
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.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🤜 Right-facing Fist or 🗄️ File Cabinet?