Open hands: light skin tone Emoji
People
A pair of open hands with palms facing forward, rendered in a light skin tone. The fingers are splayed, mimicking the appearance of a person reaching out for a hug or gesturing towards an open space.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to express openness, transparency, or a desire for a physical embrace. It is also used to represent the 'jazz hands' gesture in internet slang, signaling excitement, flair, or celebration. It serves as a more literal, physical counterpart to the 🤗 hugging face emoji.
History
The base open hands emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010. The ability to modify the skin tone was introduced in 2015 as part of the Emoji 1.0 update, allowing users to better reflect the diverse range of human appearances across global digital communication.
Details
Glyph
👐🏻
Unicode
U+1F450 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f450_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hands
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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