Open hands: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A pair of open, palms-out hands featuring a medium-dark skin tone. The thumbs overlap slightly, and the fingers are spread wide to suggest an offering, a reach for contact, or a grand gesture of openness.

Usage Context

Used to represent giving a hug, showing excitement, or signaling that someone is 'open' to a conversation. It is frequently used in digital slang to mean 'jazz hands' or to express enthusiasm. You might pair it with 🤗 to double down on the feeling of warmth or with 🙌 when celebrating a win.

History

These hands were part of the Unicode expansion that brought diverse skin tones to the emoji set in 2015. This update was a massive shift for messaging platforms, allowing users to move away from the default yellow icons and better represent their own identities in global digital discourse.

Details

Glyph

👐🏾

Unicode

U+1F450 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f450_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC50;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hands

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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