Meet the ultimate hype button: raising hands: medium skin tone, a.k.a. 🙌🏽, the digital way to throw your arms up and yell "YAS!" without leaving the chat. It screams celebration, gratitude, relief, and "big W" energy—used for everything from acing an exam to finally fixing that one bug that ruined your week. You’ll see it under achievement posts, victory selfies, concert clips, and "we outside" weekend plans; it’s also perfect for sarcastically cheering the most minor wins like "found a clean fork 🙌🏽". In internet slang, it reads as praise hands, amen, raise the roof, or simply LET’S GOOOO, and it doubles as a supportive hype reply when your friend drops a thirst-trap or PR.
On Apple/iOS, it shows two medium-brown hands lifted overhead, palms facing out, fingers curved with neat shading, thumbs angled outward, and celebratory golden rays flicking above like confetti sparkles. The look is glossy and symmetrical—no sleeves, just wrist to fingertip—instantly recognizable as a roof-raising, crowd-cheer pose rather than clapping. Fun fact: people often misread this as a high five between two people, but it’s actually one person throwing both hands up in praise. Use it when you’re feeling blessed, when the beat drops, when the package finally arrives, or when the group chat pulls off plans that felt like herding cats.
The Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2176 of 2393 |
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| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
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| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F64C, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128588, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 8C, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 214, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE4C, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde4c, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56908, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F64C 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F64C, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128588, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F64C\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x8c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE4C\uD83C\uDFFD" |
