The raised hand: dark skin tone emoji is the digital equivalent of saying, I volunteer, pick me, or hold up, pause the playlist. It works for classroom vibes, Zoom meetings, and those tweets that start with raise your hand if you also forgot what day it is. In texts, it can mean me too or I have a question, but it also moonlights as a gentle boundary-setter, like talk to the hand but make it polite. Pair two of them and some folks read it as a high five, though for celebration confetti energy people usually reach for the double hands up emoji.
On Apple devices, itโs a deep-brown palm facing forward, five fingers pressed together with a slightly arched shape, a subtle thumb to the side, and soft shading that shows knuckles and palm lines. Thereโs no sleeve, just a clean, front-facing hand that looks like itโs mid-raise from a desk. Culturally, it taps into school roll calls, the 90s talk to the hand catchphrase, and the modern video-call raise hand button. Emotionally, it can be earnest, a little dramatic, even flirty in a notice-me way, and very relatable in memes where everyone quietly admits the same chaos by chiming in with a single raised palm.
The Raised Hand emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2027 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: | Black Raised Hand |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | โ๐ฟ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | โ๐ฟ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | ✋ 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | ✋ 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 270b, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270B, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9995, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8B, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 213, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270B, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270b, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9995, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270B 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270B, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9995, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\u270B\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270B\uD83C\uDFFF" |
