Raised back of hand emoji 🤚
Emoji 3.0 (2016) · U+1F91A
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤚 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Raised back of hand 🤚 is tagged with these keywords: back, backhand, hand, raised.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing back or backhand in the emoji search brings up 🤚.
Raised back of hand 🤚 is one of 11 emoji in the open hands subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🖐️ ✋ 🖖 🫱.
🤚 comes in 5 skin tones, from 🤚🏻 to 🤚🏿, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🤚 show on my friend's phone?
🤚 arrived with Emoji 3.0 in 2016. Practically every phone and computer in use today shows it.
How to type 🤚
Any emoji picker finds 🤚 when you search for raised back of hand.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type raised back of hand.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type raised back of hand in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type raised back of hand.
Codes for developers
Raised back of hand 🤚 is a single code point, U+1F91A. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F91A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤚 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤚 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F91A"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F91A} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%9A | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 9A |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🤚 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | raised back of hand |
| Português | dorso da mão levantado |
| Español | dorso de la mano |
| Italiano | dorso mano alzata |
| Français | dos de main levée |
| Deutsch | erhobene Hand von hinten |
| Türkçe | elinin tersini kaldırma |
| Bahasa Indonesia | angkat tangan |
| Polski | wzniesiony grzbiet dłoni |
| Русский | поднятая рука |
| 日本語 | 手の甲 |
| 한국어 | 손등 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the raised back of hand emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤚 "raised back of hand" and links it with back, backhand, hand, raised. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the open hands subgroup of people & body.
When was the raised back of hand emoji added?
In Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🤚?
Yes. 🤚 has these skin tones: 🤚🏻 🤚🏼 🤚🏽 🤚🏾 🤚🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.