Raising hands: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

Two hands held palms-up, raised high in the air with a medium-light skin tone. The gesture mimics a person reaching upward in a show of excitement or religious worship.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for celebrating a big win, showing support for a good point, or expressing religious fervor. It is frequently used alongside the 🎉 party popper or 🙏 folded hands to signal high energy and collective joy.

History

Based on the original 'person raising both hands in celebration' character, skin tone variations were added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. The design draws from mid-2000s Japanese web culture where exaggerated hand gestures were common in forum avatars and early instant messaging reactions.

Details

Glyph

🙌🏼

Unicode

U+1F64C U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f64c_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE4C;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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

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