Raised hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A flat, palm-forward hand with fingers held together, displayed in a medium-light skin tone. The design clearly shows the palm, thumb, and all four fingers extended in a gesture that signifies a halt or a greeting.

Usage Context

This is the go-to emoji for telling someone to wait, stopping an unwanted conversation, or signaling a high-five. It is often used alongside the ✋ standard version or 👋 to add a specific skin tone to a friendly wave or a firm 'stop' command.

History

Based on the original Unicode character for a raised hand, this variant was added in 2015 as part of the implementation of the Fitzpatrick scale, allowing users to customize the skin tone of human-like emojis to better reflect diverse populations.

Details

Glyph

✋🏼

Unicode

U+270B U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u270b_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

✋&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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