Open Hands emoji
Type :open_hands: · People & body
Unicode name Open Hands · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 👐 means
Open hands, palms up. Offering, welcoming, or "what can you do". The least aggressive way to shrug.
How to type 👐 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :open
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
:open_hands: Search terms
Also found by searching hand, hands, hug, jazz, open, swerve.
Skin tones for 👐
Open Hands 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
Open Hands is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F450
- HTML
- 👐
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F450}'
- CSS content
- "\1F450"
- Python
- '\U0001F450'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%91%90
Related emojis
:vulcan: 🙌 :raised_hands: 👋 :wave: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🫱 :rightwards_hand: 🫴 :palm_up: 👌 :ok_hand: 🤌 :pinch: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
Tired of copying 👐 from pages like this one?
That is exactly what the extension removes. Here is the whole interaction, in every text field you already use:
You type
You get
Your keyboard already knows what you mean
Free, 290 KB, no account. Two letters from now you will never open an emoji panel again.
