Meet the raising hands: medium-dark skin tone emoji, your built‑in hype squad for every W, big or small. It screams praise hands, hallelujah, yas queen, and let’s gooo all at once—perfect for wins, breakthroughs, or when the coffee finally hits. Online it plays the role of the crowd cheer: use it to gas up a friend’s good news, celebrate a deadline slain, or jokingly overreact to finding parking on the first try. It’s also prime for sarcasm—drop it after “the Wi‑Fi actually worked” or “I survived the group project”—equal parts joy and side‑eye.
On Apple, you’ll see two medium‑dark brown hands lifted high, palms forward with splayed fingers, shaded with soft gradients for a 3D feel. Above the hands float celebratory accents—little rays and confetti‑like triangles in cool blues and purples—so it reads like a mini touchdown moment. The pose is front‑facing and perfectly symmetrical, which makes it instantly recognizable in feeds and stories even at tiny sizes.
Nicknamed “praise hands,” it nods to church shout‑outs, sports victory dances, and Black Twitter hype traditions, and it pairs nicely with sparkles, fire, or a big W. Use one for “amen,” two for “WE UP,” and a whole row when the playlist hits like a choir modulation.
The Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2489 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: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F64C, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128588, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 8C, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 214, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE4C, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde4c, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56908, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F64C 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F64C, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128588, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F64C\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x8c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE4C\uD83C\uDFFE" |
