A person with its&nbsp;hand in the air, as if it wants to ask or answer a question.

Generally displayed as a woman, but is not defined as one particular gender.&nbsp;Previously showed&nbsp;a blob-like gender-inclusive character&nbsp;in the Google artwork.

Happy Person Raising One Hand

A black&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 6 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;Deeply pigmented dark brown to black

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-6

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

A circle shown with a crossed vertical line beneath it, used as a representation for&nbsp;women. Often used on <a href="/international-womens-day/">International Women&#39;s Day</a>.

Female Sign

Person Raising Hand: Dark Skin Tone

Man Raising Hand: Dark Skin Tone

Woman Raising Hand: Dark Skin Tone

Emojipedia

Discord

Woman Raising Hand

Woman Raising Hand: Light Skin Tone

Woman Raising Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Woman Raising Hand: Medium Skin Tone

Woman Raising Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Apple

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Google Noto Color Emoji

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Samsung

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

Microsoft 3D Fluent

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Microsoft

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

WhatsApp

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Twitter / X

Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Facebook

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Huawei

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Microsoft Teams (3D Animated)

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Twitter Emoji Stickers

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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JoyPixels

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Toss Face (토스페이스)

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

Sony Playstation

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

OpenMoji

New emojis from Apple for 2024.

Released on 5 March 2024 for iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, this was the first version of iOS to support the 118 new emojis in <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>, including various direction-specific people emojis.

This update also changed all family emojis to display with one of the four silhouette symbol designs also used for the new non-gender-specifying family emojis added in <a href="/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a>.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-17-4-emoji-changelog/">Learn more about this update.</a>

iOS 17.4

New emojis from Apple for 2023&nbsp;available as part of iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, tvOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, and macOS 13.3.

iOS 16.4

New emojis from Apple for 2022&nbsp;available as part of&nbsp;iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, tvOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, and macOS 12.3.

Released on 14&nbsp;March 2022, this was the first version of iOS to support the 112 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>, including various multiple skin tone versions of the <a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a> emoji.

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of the <a href="/face-with-hand-over-mouth/">🤭&nbsp;Face with Hand Over Mouth</a>&nbsp;emoji to be more consistent with the designs of other vendors, with this emoji&#39;s originaly design being given to the new <a href="/emoji-14.0/">🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth</a>&nbsp;emoji.

Taking into account a series of additional&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#non-rgi">non-RGI</a>&nbsp;<a href="/handshake/">🤝 Handshake</a> emoji sequences, there are 123 new emojis in this release.

iOS 15.4

Released on 2021-05-24, this update changed the appearance&nbsp;of the various&nbsp;<a href="/person-climbing/">🧗 Person Climbing</a> emojis to have the person wearing a safety helmet.

iOS 14.6

New emojis from Apple for 2021 available as part of&nbsp;iOS 14.5, iPadOS 14.5, tvOS 14.5, watchOS 7.4, and macOS 11.3.

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of the&nbsp;<a href="/syringe/">💉&nbsp;Syringe</a>&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;to remove the blood, and added mixed skin tone support to&nbsp;<a href="/kiss/">💏&nbsp;Kiss</a> and <a href="/couple-with-heart/">💑&nbsp;Couple with Heart</a>.

Released on 26&nbsp;April 2021, this was the first version of iOS to support the 217 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>. Taking into account <a href="/glossary/#non-rgi">non-RGI</a> emoji sequences, there&nbsp;there are 669 new emojis in this release.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-14-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 14.5

New emojis from Apple for 2020 released on iOS 14.2, iPad OS 14.2 and macOS 11 Big Sur.&nbsp;Emoji additions included&nbsp;<a href="/bubble-tea/">🧋 Bubble Tea</a>, <a href="/transgender-flag/">🏳️&zwj;⚧️ Transgender Flag</a>, <a href="/pinched-fingers/">🤌 Pinched Fingers</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear.</a>

This Apple emoji update changed the appearance of&nbsp;<a href="/person-with-veil/">👰 Person With Veil </a>and&nbsp;<a href="/person-in-tuxedo/">🤵 Person in Tuxedo</a> to gender neutral designs, with new sequences added to support gender-specific options for women or men. This software version also changed the appearance of&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-medical-mask/">😷 Face with Medical Mask</a> to smile.

Released on 5&nbsp;November 2020, this was the first version of iOS to support the 117 new emojis in&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-14-2-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 14.2

A minor update which fixed a bug where <a href="/apple/ios-13.3/men-holding-hands-medium-skin-tone-medium-dark-skin-tone/">one variation of men holding hands</a>&nbsp;previously showed <a href="/apple/ios-13.2/men-holding-hands-medium-skin-tone-medium-dark-skin-tone/">an incorrect set of skin tones</a>. This change applies to iOS 13.3, iPadOS 13.3 and macOS 10.15.2.

iOS 13.3

iOS 13.2 was released on 2019-10-28 with&nbsp;added support for gender neutral options, people holding hands with various skin tones, as well as full <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a> and <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a> compatibility. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-13-2-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 13.2

iOS 13.1&nbsp;was released on 2019-09-24 with a number&nbsp;of emoji <a href="/apple/ios-13.1/changed/">design changes</a> including more accurate representations of&nbsp;<a href="/octopus/">🐙 Octopus</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/squid/">🦑 Squid</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/mosquito/">🦟 Mosquito</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/abacus/">🧮 Abacus</a>.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-13-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 13.1

A minor update to iOS which made minor modifications to the <a href="/owl/">🦉&nbsp;Owl</a> and <a href="/boar/">🐗&nbsp;Boar</a> to match the new Animoji release. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-12-2-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 12.2

iOS 12.1 was released on 2018-10-30 with 158 new emojis and&nbsp;4 new emoji components.&nbsp;All additions in this release came from <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>&nbsp;except&nbsp;the <a href="/flag-united-nations/">United Nations Flag</a> which was from <a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a>.&nbsp;Prominent inclusions in this release were&nbsp;<a href="/red-hair/">redheads</a>, <a href="/curly-hair/">curly hair</a>, <a href="/softball/">softball</a>, <a href="/skateboard/">skateboard</a>, and <a href="/bagel/">bagel</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-12-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 12.1

iOS 11.3 was a minor update to the iOS emoji set. The main change in this release is the modification of four emojis used in Apple&#39;s separate Animoji feature. First <a href="https://www.apple.com/uk/newsroom/2018/01/apple-previews-ios-11-3/">announced</a> in January&nbsp;2018, this release was finalized in March 2018.

This emoji release also applied to tvOS 11.3,&nbsp;macOS 10.13.4 and&nbsp;watchOS 4.3.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-11-3-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 11.3

iOS 11.2 changed a number of emojis, most notably reverting the <a href="/tumbler-glass/">Tumbler Glass</a> to a previous design.

Metallic objects gained a more reflective appearance in this release, among other minor changes. The same emoji changes apply to tvOS 11.2, watchOS 4.2, and macOS 10.13.2.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-11-2-emoji-changelog/">Read more</a>.

iOS 11.2

iOS 11.1 was released on October 31, 2017 and&nbsp;includes 240 new emojis&nbsp;including&nbsp;<a href="/giraffe/">Giraffe</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/face-vomiting/">Face Vomiting</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/genie/">Genie</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/sauropod/">Sauropod (dinosaur)</a> and <a href="/emoji-5.0/">more</a>. A number of existing emojis changed in this update, such as <a href="/honeybee/">Honeybee</a>, <a href="/ram/">Ram</a>, and <a href="/tumbler-glass/">Tumbler Glass</a>.

These&nbsp;emoji updates are included as part of iOS 11.1 for iPhone and iPad, macOS High Sierra 10.3.1 for Mac, watchOS 4.1 for Apple Watch and tvOS 11.1 for Apple TV.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-11-1-emoji-changelog/">Learn more about this update</a>.

iOS 11.1

iOS 10.3 included a number of&nbsp;design tweaks including changes to&nbsp;<a href="/shallow-pan-of-food/" title="🥘 Shallow Pan of Food">🥘&nbsp;Shallow Pan of Food</a>,&nbsp;<a href="/tanabata-tree/" title="🎋 Tanabata Tree">🎋&nbsp;Tanabata Tree</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="/fog/" title="🌫️ Fog">🌫️&nbsp;Fog</a>. No new emojis were added.

<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/apple-fixes-paella-emoji/">More about this update</a>.

iOS 10.3

<a href="/apple/ios-10.2/">iOS 10.2</a> was released on December 12, 2016. This release&nbsp;added support for <a href="/unicode-9.0/">Unicode 9</a> emojis, as well as&nbsp;new professions and&nbsp;a graphical redesign. This emoji release coincides with&nbsp;tvOS 10.1,&nbsp;watchOS 3.1.1, and&nbsp;macOS Sierra 10.12.2.&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-2-emoji-changelog/">Learn more</a>.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-2-emoji-changelog/">📲 iOS 10.2 Emoji Changelog</a></li>
</ul>

iOS 10.2

iOS 10.0.1 was released on&nbsp;September 13, 2016. This release included&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-gendered-emoji-list/">new gendered emojis</a>, <a href="/rainbow-flag/">rainbow flag</a>, and an updated <a href="/pistol/">pistol emoji</a>. See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng5wozKJOMc">all new and changed emojis</a> in this YouTube video. These emoji updates also apply to macOS Sierra.

<ul>
	<li><a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/ios-10-emoji-changelog/">📲 iOS 10 Emoji Changelog</a></li>
</ul>

iOS 10.0

iOS 5.1&nbsp;was released in March 2012 and was the first version of Apple&#39;s emoji font to use cross-platform compatible emoji codepoints from the&nbsp;Unicode Standard.&nbsp;Previous releases of iOS supported emoji characters in the private use area of Unicode.

Support for a number of new emojis was available in this release, but not these new emojis were not displayed&nbsp;on the iOS emoji keyboard. As such, widespread use of emojis from <a href="/unicode-6.0/">Unicode 6.0</a> was not achieved until the release of <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/">iOS 6.0</a>&nbsp;later in 2012.

Emojis in this release were also supported in Mac OS X 10.7.4 and above.

🙋🏿‍♀️ Woman Raising Hand: Dark Skin Tone on undefined iOS 5.1

🙋🏿‍♀️ Woman Raising Hand: Dark Skin Tone on undefined iOS 5.1

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