Raised Hand emoji

✋ · People & Body › Open hands · Emoji 0.6 (2010)

What does ✋ mean?

✋ is an open palm held up and facing forward. It comes in five skin tones.

It can mean stop or hold on, a high five, or raising your hand to volunteer or ask something. The words around it usually make it obvious which.

How people use ✋

• ✋ wait, don't send it yet
• high five ✋
• me! ✋
• stop right there ✋
• anyone? ✋

Often used with ✋

• 🙋 Person Raising Hand
• 👋 Waving Hand
• 🛑 Stop Sign
• 🙌 Raising Hands
• 😅 Grinning Face with Sweat

Make emoji art with ✋

Paint with ✋ in the emoji art editor, or turn any photo into emojis with the image to emoji converter.

Similar emojis

• 🤚 Raised Back of Hand
• 🖐️ Hand with Fingers Splayed
• 👋 Waving Hand
• 🙋 Person Raising Hand
• 🛑 Stop Sign
• 🫸 Rightwards Pushing Hand
• 👐 Open Hands
• 🙌 Raising Hands
• 🙏 Folded Hands
• 🖖 Vulcan Salute
• 🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand
• ✊ Raised Fist

Codes for developers

• Code points: U+270B
• HTML: ✋
• CSS: \270B
• JavaScript: \u{270B}
• Python: \U0000270B
• URL: %E2%9C%8B

Details

• Unicode name: raised hand
• Category: People & Body › Open hands
• Introduced: Emoji 0.6 (2010)
• Skin tones: yes

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