The raised hand: medium skin tone emoji is the universal “I’m up!” signal—half classroom volunteer, half traffic cop “hold up a sec.” People drop it to ask a question, claim responsibility, say “same,” or set a boundary with gentle stop‑sign energy. Online it doubles as the Zoom/Teams raise hand, the “me in this thread” tag, or a one‑sided high five when you don’t quite want the full confetti of 🙌. The medium skin tone adds inclusive representation, matching a warm mid‑brown shade so your digital self can literally put a hand up.
On iOS, it’s a front‑facing palm with five fingers splayed, rounded tips, subtle palm creases, and soft 3D shading that reads like real skin. The hand is slightly tilted, thumb curved inward, wrist barely peeking in—no sleeve, no props, just clean emoji minimalism. Culturally it channels “talk to the hand” ’90s sass, “I volunteer as tribute” bravery, and the classic classroom “Pick me, choose me” energy. It’s also used sarcastically—like raising your hand to admit a guilty pleasure, own a mistake, or preface a hot take with “Before anyone yells at me…”
The Raised Hand emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3464 of 2393 |
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| 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270B, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9995, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8B, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 213, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270B, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270b, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9995, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270B 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270B, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9995, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\u270B\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270B\uD83C\uDFFD" |
