The raised hand: medium-light skin tone is your digital “hold up” and “pick me!” all in one. It pops up when you’re volunteering in a group chat, signaling you’ve got a question, or confessing a relatable habit like, “Who forgot their keys again? ✋🏼 Me.” It also leans dramatic when you need a polite boundary—think stop, pause, or “talk to the hand” with peak ’90s sitcom energy. On Zoom or Teams, it doubles as the unofficial raise-hand button, announcing you’ve got something to say without interrupting like a human foghorn.
On Apple devices, it’s a right hand shown palm-forward with all five fingers together (not splayed), rendered in a warm medium-light beige with smooth gradients and subtle crease lines at the knuckles. There’s no sleeve—just a clean, three-quarter upright palm that reads crystal-clear from tiny notification size to full-screen. People sometimes use it as a solo “high-five,” though the true high-five look is two hands, so this one can be a funny, slightly awkward stand-in. It can be earnest (“I volunteer as tribute”—even if that’s technically a different salute), sarcastic (“ma’am, pause”), or used for gentle gatekeeping like “one sec, lemme finish.” It’s great for classroom vibes, traffic-cop halt moments, and that meme-y ritual of raising your hand when you’re exposed by a tweet.
The Raised Hand emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3463 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: | Light Brown Raised Hand |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ✋🏼 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ✋🏼 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ✋ 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ✋ 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 270b, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270B, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9995, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8B, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 213, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270B, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270b, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9995, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270B 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270B, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9995, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\u270B\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270B\uD83C\uDFFC" |
