Raised Hand emoji
Type :high_five: · People & body
Unicode name Raised Hand · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What ✋️ means
A raised palm: stop, hello, or half of a high five. Paired with 🤚 most people read it as the full gesture.
How to type ✋️ without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :high
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick ✋️ from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:high_five: :raised_hand: Search terms
Also found by searching 5, five, hand, high, raised, stop.
Skin tones for ✋️
Raised Hand comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click ✋️ in the popup for a one-off variant.
default ✋🏻 light ✋🏼 medium-light ✋🏽 medium ✋🏾 medium-dark ✋🏿 dark ✋️ in HTML, CSS and code
Raised Hand is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+270B
- HTML
- ✋
- JavaScript
- '\u{270B}'
- CSS content
- "\270B"
- Python
- '\u270B'
- URL-encoded
- %E2%9C%8B
Related emojis
:leftwards_pushing_hand: 🫸 :rightwards_pushing_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: 🙏 :folded_hands: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: ✊️ :fist: 🙌 :raised_hands: 👋 :wave: 🖖 :vulcan: 🫱 :rightwards_hand: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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You type
You get
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