person raising hand 🙋

The Person Raising Hand emoji is here to answer your questions! Here we have an emoji featuring a gender-neutral person raising its right hand. This raising hand emoji belongs to a series of emojis that feature a person up to the bust area.

Uses of the person raising hand emoji are generally easy to decipher. This is because this emoji is sometimes called the high five emoji. High fives are done to establish a greeting or agreement at a statement that was said. Because the person raising hand looks like it’s waiting on the receiving end of a high five, it becomes attached to the meaning.

Another way of using this one hand up emoji is to actually raise your hand in a discussion. In school, raising your hand is to ask permission for something: whether it is for a question or to be allowed to go to the restroom. This is why you can send the raise hand emoji during virtual meetings to attract some attention.

Finally, it’s also used to describe waving goodbye. This is especially true when it’s placed next to the Waving Hand emoji. Just like how it looks as if the emoji is raising its hand for a high five, it also appears to be waving goodbye. You can use this emoji to say a friendly goodbye to a person.

🙋 Person Raising Hand is a fully-qualified emoji as part of Unicode 6.0 which was introduced in 2010.

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