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 dark brown&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 5 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;&nbsp;Dark brown; Middle Eastern skin types

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-5

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 diagonal arrow pointing out the top-right, used as a representation for&nbsp;men.

Male Sign

Woman Raising Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Person Raising Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Emojipedia

Discord

Man Raising Hand

Man Raising Hand: Light Skin Tone

Man Raising Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Man Raising Hand: Medium Skin Tone

Man Raising Hand: Dark Skin Tone

Man 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

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

Beginning its global rollout on 2023-10-31, the Windows11 23H2 update introduced support for <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0">Emoji 15.0</a>&nbsp;to the flat versions of the&nbsp;Fluent emoji design set used by the OS since its <a href="https://emojipedia.org/microsoft/windows-11-november-2021-update">November 2021</a> update.

This update also redesigned a selection of emojis within the flat Fluent set. These redesigns include many smiley emojis&nbsp;having the size and positioning of their dotted black pupils subtly modified, the&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands">🙏 Folded Hands</a> being shown&nbsp;isometrically, the <a href="https://emojipedia.org/alien">👽 Alien</a> changed from grey to green once again, and the previously atypical width of the vendor&#39;s four-person family emoji designs&nbsp;being revised.

Additionally, a bug appears to have swapped the designs of the various&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/deaf-man">🧏&zwj;♂️ Deaf Man</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/deaf-woman">🧏&zwj;♀️ Deaf Woman</a> emojis.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/microsoft-windows-11-23h2-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

Windows 11 23H2

Beginning its rollout on 2022-09-20, Window 11&#39;s 22H2 update introduced support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> emojis such as <a href="/melting-face/">🫠 Melting Face</a>, <a href="/saluting-face/">🫡 Saluting Face</a>, and <a href="/heart-hands/">🫶 Heart Hands</a>.

This update also revised a number of previous-released emoji designs.&nbsp;Notably, the colored heart emojis such as&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/red-heart/">❤️ Red Heart</a> were given additional details.

Additionally, each of the hand gesutre and people emojis without a skin tone modifier were given a revised base skin tone color.

Windows 11 22H2

Beginning its rollout on 2021-11-22, Window 11&#39;s November 2021 update redesigned all of Microsoft&#39;s emojis, officially launching the <a href="https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/11/22/express-yourself-with-new-emoji-now-available-in-windows-11/">2D incarnation</a> of the platform&#39;s Fluent&nbsp;emoji set. The&nbsp;Fluent&nbsp;redesign was <a href="https://medium.com/microsoft-design/emotionality-at-work-398182387adc">first&nbsp;previewed</a> ahead of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day</a> 2021.

This update was the first to support <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>&nbsp;recommendations such as&nbsp;<a href="/heart-on-fire/">❤️&zwj;🔥 Heart on Fire</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/face-in-clouds/">😶&zwj;🌫️ Face in Clouds</a> on Windows.

Windows 11 November 2021 Update

Microsoft Windows 11&nbsp;launched&nbsp;on 2021-10-05, and was the first version of Windows update to support&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. Emojis in this release are displayed in the thick outlined&nbsp;Segoe Color Emoji&nbsp;style from Windows 10, instead of the <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/new-fluent-emoji-designs-from-microsoft/">Fluent designs</a> previewed ahead of <a href="https://worldemojiday.com/">World Emoji Day 2021</a>.

Support for <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;and <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>&nbsp;was initially made available via Windows 10 Insiders Builds <a href="https://twitter.com/Emojipedia/status/1337183890063187971">in December 2020</a>.

Windows 11

Windows 10 May 2019 update began rolling out on 2019-05-21, and was the first Windows release to support <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-may-2019-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this release</a>.

Windows 10 May 2019 Update

Windows 10 October 2018 Update (often referred to as&nbsp;Fall 2018 Update&nbsp;prior to release) was released on October 2, 2018 and is the first Windows release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>.

This update also includes a number of&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10-october-2018-update/changed/">changes</a>&nbsp;to emoji appearance.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-october-2018-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Windows 10 April 2018 Update (commonly referred to as&nbsp;Spring Creators Update&nbsp;prior to release) was released on April 30, 2018 and includes a number of <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-april-2018-update/changed/">changes</a> to emoji appearance mainly to bring emoji design in line with other platforms. No new emojis were added in this release. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-april-2018-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Windows 10 April 2018 Update

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update is the major release that followed <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-creators-update/">Windows 10 Creators Update</a>. Released on October 17, 2017 this update added support for <a href="/emoji-5.0/">Emoji 5.0</a> and changed the appearance of a number of existing emojis.

Windows 10 Fall Creators Update

Windows 10 Creators Update was the first major&nbsp;emoji update from Microsoft in 2017.

Released on April 11, 2017, this version added&nbsp;support for Emoji 4.0, and was the first update to support emojis for interracial couples. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/windows-10-creators-update-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

🙋🏾‍♂️ Man Raising Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone on undefined Windows 10 May 2019 Update

🙋🏾‍♂️ Man Raising Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone on undefined Windows 10 May 2019 Update

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