This is the digital equivalent of saying “Whoa there, friend” with a friendly grin—an open palm that reads as stop, back up, hi, or ta‑da depending on the vibe. It’s great for setting boundaries (“hands off”), dropping a dramatic pause, or doing jazz‑hands lite when you’re excited without committing to full Broadway. People also use it for an “air high‑five,” to signal five things, or as a playful force-field against drama (“blocking bad vibes”). In meme-speak, it’s the talk-to-the-hand energy—firm but still kind of cheeky.
On Apple/iOS, the medium‑light skin tone shows a warm, beige‑peach gradient with gentle shading at the knuckles. The palm faces straight forward like a starfish, thumb angled out, rounded fingertips, minimal crease detail, and that smooth, glossy Apple finish—clean, no sleeve, no outline. Visually it’s distinct from the classic raised hand because the fingers are noticeably spread, giving it more “halt or ta‑da” than “I volunteer as tribute.” You’ll see it in texts when someone wants space, to punctuate a big reveal, or to serve theatrical “spirit fingers” without breaking a sweat.
Culturally, it taps everything from traffic-cop halt to cheerleader sparkle (“Bring It On” fans, assemble) to horoscope TikToks pretending to read your palm through the screen. It can skew flirty (“hands off, I’m taken”), sarcastic (“please, spare me”), or just practical (“pause—one more thing”).
The Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3470 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
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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 Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed: Medium-Light Skin Tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 1f590, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F590, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128400, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x90, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 90, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 220, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD90, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd90, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56720, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F590 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F590, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128400, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F590\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x90\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD90\uD83C\uDFFC" |
