Raised back of hand: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A flat, open palm facing outward with a medium skin tone, depicting the back of a human hand. The fingers are held upright and together, mimicking the physical gesture of signaling for attention or stopping someone.

Usage Context

This gesture is widely used to signal a 'stop' motion, request a turn to speak, or represent a high-five when paired with raised hand. It is also frequently used in digital shorthand to signify 'I have a question' or 'wait a second' during group chats.

History

While human hand signals have been part of non-verbal communication for millennia, this specific emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2016. It was part of an update to provide more inclusive skin tone modifiers following the widespread adoption of the Fitzpatrick scale for digital icons.

Details

Glyph

🤚🏽

Unicode

U+1F91A U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f91a_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD1A;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

CC-BY 4.0 License Twemoji Repository