Open hands: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A pair of open, palms-up hands shown with a dark skin tone. The fingers are splayed outward, signaling a gesture of openness, availability, or a wide reach.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent a hug, an invitation to embrace, or the act of showing off something impressive, similar to the energy of 🙌. It is also used in internet slang to signal a lack of wrongdoing, often paired with the phrase 'I come in peace.'

History

The base open hands emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The skin tone modifiers were introduced in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update, aiming to provide a more inclusive range of human representation across digital platforms.

Details

Glyph

👐🏿

Unicode

U+1F450 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f450_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC50;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hands

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.

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