Raised hand emoji ✋
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+270B
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What ✋ means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Raised hand ✋ is tagged with these keywords: 5, five, hand, high, raised, stop.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing 5 or five in the emoji search brings up ✋.
Raised 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?
✋ is one of the original emoji: it comes from the Japanese phone sets and is listed in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Every phone, computer and app shows it.
How to type ✋
Any emoji picker finds ✋ when you search for raised hand.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type raised hand.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type raised hand in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type raised hand.
Codes for developers
Raised hand ✋ is a single code point, U+270B. In UTF-8 it takes 3 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 1.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+270B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | ✋ | |
| HTML (decimal) | ✋ | |
| CSS | content: "\270B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u270B | |
| URL | %E2%9C%8B | |
| UTF-8 bytes | E2 9C 8B |
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 hand |
| Português | mão levantada |
| Español | mano levantada |
| Italiano | mano alzata |
| Français | main levée |
| Deutsch | erhobene Hand |
| Türkçe | el kaldırma |
| Bahasa Indonesia | telapak tangan terbuka dengan jari rapat |
| Polski | wzniesiona dłoń |
| Русский | поднятая ладонь |
| 日本語 | 挙手 |
| 한국어 | 손바닥 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the raised hand emoji mean?
Unicode calls ✋ "raised hand" and links it with 5, five, hand, high. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the open hands subgroup of people & body.
When was the raised hand emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
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.