The raised hand: medium-dark skin tone is the digital equivalent of clearing your throat in a meeting and saying, "Briefly, if I may…" It’s used to volunteer, ask a question, call dibs, or gently slam the brakes with a classy “hold up.” In texts and tweets, it doubles as a boundary-setter—polite but firm—like saying, “Respectfully, no,” or “Pause, I have thoughts.” It also shows up in a self-own way when someone asks, “Who forgot to hit save?” and you sheepishly raise your hand.
On Apple/iOS, the hand faces forward with five fingers spread, thumb out, and clean palm creases, rendered in a rich medium-dark brown gradient that feels warm and dimensional. The angle is straight-on, no sleeve, no props—just a confident palm that reads instantly as “hey, I’m speaking.” People sometimes use it as a faux high-five, though the true high-five emoji is a different one—this palm is more “teacher, I know this” than “nice play, team.” Online, it leans dramatic or comedic: “I volunteer as tribute ✋🏾,” “Hold up, plot twist ✋🏾,” or the classic ‘90s throwback, “Talk to the hand.”
The Raised Hand emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3465 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270B, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9995, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8B, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 213, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270B, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270b, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9995, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270B 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270B, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9995, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\u270B\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270B\uD83C\uDFFE" |
