Hand with fingers splayed: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A flat, five-fingered hand shown palm-out with the fingers spread wide apart, rendered in a medium skin tone. It mimics a natural, open-handed gesture used to greet or signal someone from a distance.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent the number five, a high-five, or a firm request to halt or stop. It is a more casual, friendly alternative to the static ✋ raised hand, often paired with 👋 to emphasize a wave or a greeting.

History

While hands have been part of early digital communication since the first dingbat fonts, this specific splayed version was added to the Unicode standard in 2014. It reflects the expansion of skin tone modifiers introduced to make digital gestures more representative of a global user base.

Details

Glyph

🖐🏽

Unicode

U+1F590 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f590_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD90;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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