Raised back of hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A flat, open hand shown from the back, featuring a medium-dark skin tone. The fingers are held upright and together, mimicking the physical gesture of someone raising their hand to speak, signal a stop, or request attention.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent a hand-raising gesture in a classroom or meeting setting. It is also used to indicate a 'stop' motion, a high-five, or to draw attention to a specific point in a conversation. It is frequently paired with ✋ for emphasis or used alongside 🙋🏾 to signify active participation.

History

While the raised hand gesture has existed in communication for centuries, the specific skin-tone variations were introduced as part of the Unicode 8.0 update in 2015. This was implemented to bring more diverse representation to digital communication, following requests for inclusive modifiers that reflect the global user base.

Details

Glyph

🤚🏾

Unicode

U+1F91A U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91a_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1A;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

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

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