Hand with fingers splayed: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

An open palm with all five fingers spread wide, shown in a medium-dark skin tone. It portrays a hand held up to face forward, mirroring the posture of someone signaling a halt or offering a high-five.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to tell someone to stop, wait, or back off. It also doubles as a gesture for the number five or a friendly wave. When used in a more literal sense, it pairs well with ✋ for emphasis or 👋 to denote a greeting.

History

While the basic hand symbol has been part of character sets for decades, the ability to choose skin tones was added in 2015 with Unicode 8.0. This update was a major shift for digital communication, allowing users to select modifiers that reflect their own identity rather than relying on the default yellow cartoon tone.

Details

Glyph

🖐🏾

Unicode

U+1F590 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f590_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD90;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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