Hand with fingers splayed: light skin tone Emoji

People

An open hand showing five fingers extended outward with a light skin tone. The palm faces forward, clearly displaying the entire hand from the wrist up.

Usage Context

Used to signal a request for someone to stop, to represent the number five, or simply to say hello or goodbye. It is frequently sent as a non-verbal way to halt a conversation or indicate a high-five gesture. It pairs naturally with other hand-based signals like ✋ or 👋.

History

Hand gestures have been a part of digital communication since the early days of chat rooms and message boards. This specific variant was added to the Unicode standard as part of the expansion of skin tone modifiers in 2015, allowing for more inclusive representation of human gestures in mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

🖐🏻

Unicode

U+1F590 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f590_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD90;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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