The raising hands: medium-light skin tone emoji is pure celebration energy—aka the internet’s “praise hands.” It’s what you drop when the group chat finally settles on dinner plans, your package arrives early, or your code compiles on the first try. Expect it to roll with captions like “LET’S GOOO,” “amen,” and “big W,” plus a healthy dose of ironic joy when the meeting gets canceled or the Wi‑Fi starts behaving again. It’s also a favorite for hyping wins on TikTok, Reels, and sports highlights—instant crowd noise in two little palms.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot two medium‑light tan palms lifted straight up, fingers spread, thumbs out, seen head-on like you’re front row at a victory parade. Above them: shiny golden spark-like bursts that read as confetti-lite—no sleeves, no face, just all-celebration, with soft gradient shading that makes the hands look 3D and camera-ready. People often call it “praise hands,” nodding to church-choir hallelujah vibes and general “we made it” moments across timelines. Bonus: it doubles as the “high-five without a partner” look, though it’s technically not a high-five—just maximum hype, minimal words.
The Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2061 of 2393 |
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| 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: | Light Brown Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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) | 1f64c, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F64C, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128588, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 8C, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 214, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE4C, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde4c, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56908, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F64C 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F64C, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128588, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F64C\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x8c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE4C\uD83C\uDFFC" |
