Raised back of hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A flat, palm-out hand facing forward, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. The fingers are held upright and together, resembling a standard 'stop' gesture or a person raising their hand to volunteer.

Usage Context

Used to signal a request for attention, a demand to halt, or to acknowledge a greeting. It is frequently sent in group chats to indicate that someone wants to speak or needs to stop a conversation. It serves as a more specific alternative to the generic ✋ or the waving 👋.

History

This hand gesture was incorporated into the Unicode standard as part of the broader effort to represent diverse human skin tones using the Fitzpatrick scale. These modifiers were introduced in 2015 to allow digital communication to better reflect the physical appearance of users across the globe.

Details

Glyph

🤚🏼

Unicode

U+1F91A U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91a_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1A;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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