Raised hand: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A flat, palm-forward hand showing five extended fingers, rendered in a medium skin tone. It mimics a classic 'stop' gesture or a person reaching out to hail someone or volunteer for a task.
Usage Context
Use this to tell someone to hold on, signal a firm 'no,' or represent the number five. It is frequently used in digital classrooms or meetings to request the floor, mirroring the physical act of raising a hand to speak. It is often used alongside the ✋ or 🖐️ to emphasize a sense of presence or boundary.
History
Hand gestures were among the first pictographs to be standardized for global communication. This specific design was added to the Unicode set to provide a neutral, human-like representation of the universal 'halt' sign, evolving from early ASCII-based text art representations of hands.
Details
Glyph
✋🏽
Unicode
U+270B U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u270b_1f3fd:
HTML Entity
✋��
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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