The raised hand: light skin tone emoji is your digital "excuse me" with the volume turned up. It signals "I have a question," "hold up a sec," or the classic โ90s "talk to the hand" when the drama levels hit season-finale heights. In chats it doubles as a volunteer badge, a humble-brag confession ("guilty, thatโs me"), or a polite boundary setter when you need a quick pause without a paragraph of text. People drop it in group threads to stop the scroll, flag a point in meetings, or playfully beg to be pickedโHunger Games style, minus the peril. Toss it next to a spicy take and it can read as sassy, ironic, or mock-official, depending on the vibe.
On Apple devices, the emoji shows a front-facing open palm with five evenly splayed fingers, rounded tips, and a soft light-peach gradient for the light skin tone. Youโll spot subtle crease lines on the palm, a distinct thumb notch, gentle shading around the knuckles, and a clean straight-on perspective without sleeves or props. Because it looks like a ready high-five, people sometimes use it that wayโespecially when paired with another raised hand for a celebratory slap. Itโs also shorthand for the Zoom/Teams "raise hand" moment, useful when youโre mentally unmuted but physically still on mute. Overall it reads friendly but firm: a palm that says hi, halt, and pick me, all in one.
The Raised Hand emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1996 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | White Raised Hand |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | โ๐ป |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | โ๐ป |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ✋ 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ✋ 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 270b, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270B, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9995, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8B, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 213, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270B, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270b, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9995, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270B 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270B, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9995, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\u270B\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270B\uD83C\uDFFB" |
