Open hands: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A pair of open hands displaying a medium-light skin tone, palms facing outward as if reaching forward or offering a hug. The fingers are splayed wide to show an inviting, receptive posture.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to represent an embrace, openness, or a gesture of welcoming someone. In internet subculture, it is sometimes used to mimic the 'jazz hands' gesture to express excitement, enthusiasm, or to signal a casual 'swerve' when someone is avoiding a specific topic or awkward situation.
History
Open hands were introduced as part of the expansion of the Unicode skin tone modifier system in 2015. This update allowed users to better represent diversity in non-verbal communication, building on the basic, yellow-toned hands that originated from early Japanese mobile carrier sets like the 🙌 raising hands emoji.
Details
Glyph
👐🏼
Unicode
U+1F450 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f450_1f3fc:
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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