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Raising hands: dark skin tone

Raising hands: dark skin tone Emoji

People

Two open palms held upward with fingers spread, rendered in a dark skin tone. The gesture conveys a sense of excitement, high-fives, or an expression of spiritual or emotional triumph.

Usage Context

Widely used to represent cheering, success, or the 'praise be' sentiment found in online communities. It serves as a visual substitute for applause or a celebratory wave. Users often pair it with 🎉 for party vibes or 🙏 when expressing gratitude or religious reverence.

History

The base gesture was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The capability to modify this emoji with skin tones was added in 2015 via the Unicode 8.0 update, following a massive push from the global tech community to make emoji representations more inclusive and diverse.

Details

Glyph
🙌🏿
Unicode
U+1F64C U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f64c_1f3ff:
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
Tags
celebrationgesturehandhandshooraypraiseraisedraisingdark skin tonecheeringtriumphsuccesshigh-five

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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