👐🏻 is the digital equivalent of saying, “I’m here for you,” with a side of “also, would you like a cookie?” It reads as welcoming, gentle, and open—great for sending comfort, offering help, or showing you’re ready to receive ideas, news, or, yes, snacks. People drop it after apologies to signal sincerity, pair it with 🥺 for maximum soft energy, or use it playfully as the “gimme hands” when someone mentions fries. It can even go ironic—“I’m totally open to feedback 👐🏻”—right after a spicy take.
On Apple devices, the emoji shows two front-facing, slightly cupped palms in a light peach tone with soft gradients, rounded thumbs pointing outward, and clear palm crease lines—like they’re holding an invisible bubble. The pose feels non-threatening and hug-adjacent, which is why it often stands in for a virtual embrace or a warm “here you go.” The light skin tone modifier personalizes the vibe, aligning with your chosen tone set. On TikTok and stan Twitter it vibes with sparkles (✨) and pleading faces for wholesome or flirty subtext, and marketers use it to say “open for collabs” without sounding like a spreadsheet.
The Open Hands Sign emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2060 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: | White Open Hands Sign |
| 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) | 1f450, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F450, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128080, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x90, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 90, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 220, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC50, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc50, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56400, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F450 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F450, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128080, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F450\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x90\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC50\uD83C\uDFFB" |
