Raised hand: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-toned human hand held upright with fingers pressed together and palm facing outward. The posture mimics a gesture used to signal a halt or to grab someone's attention.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to tell someone to stop, wait, or pause a conversation. It is also a digital way to signal that you have a question or need to volunteer for something, similar to raising your hand in a classroom. It is often paired with 🛑 to emphasize a demand for cessation or used alongside 👋🏿 to signal a high-five.

History

The base hand emoji was part of the original Unicode sets, but the ability to modify the skin tone was added in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update. This change was implemented to better reflect the diverse range of human skin tones within global digital communication.

Details

Glyph

✋🏿

Unicode

U+270B U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u270b_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

✋&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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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