The hand with fingers splayed: light skin tone is the digital equivalent of a friendly “Whoa there!”—a palm-forward pause button you can drop into any chat. People use it for stop/hold up moments, personal-space vibes, or to add a dash of dramatic flair like you’re entering stage left with mini jazz hands. It also doubles as a playful “hands off, that’s mine,” a cheeky “don’t @ me,” or a lighthearted way to say “I’m clean, not touching this chaos.” Bonus: when you need to signal the number five without typing it out, this palm has you covered.
On Apple devices, it’s a pale, peachy-beige hand viewed straight on, fingers evenly fanned, with soft gradients and rounded tips—no nails, no hard outlines, just a smooth, friendly 3D-ish palm. The thumb sits slightly apart so you get that unmistakable “talk to the hand” silhouette, like a tiny traffic cop living in your keyboard. It can read as a pre–high five freeze-frame or a superhero energy-shield moment, depending on your mood and your meme diet.
Online, it’s often used ironically—drop it after a spicy take to signal “stand down,” or pair it with sparkles for “jazz hands” enthusiasm. In DMs, it works as a flirty-but-playful boundary (“okay, slow your roll”) or a comedic line in the sand when group chats go feral. Stack it with a siren, skull, or facepalm for extra drama, or with a heart to make your “not today” message feel cute instead of cold.
The Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2070 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: | White Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed: Light Skin Tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 1f590, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F590, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128400, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x90, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 90, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 220, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD90, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd90, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56720, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F590 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F590, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128400, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F590\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x90\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD90\uD83C\uDFFB" |
