This open-palm icon is the universal “whoa there, friend” gesture—part traffic cop, part theater kid, part “talk to the hand” straight out of the ’90s. People drop it to set boundaries, signal a hard stop, or announce “personal space, please.” It also moonlights as a one-frame jazz hands, a dramatic “ta‑da,” or a friendly non-wavy hello when you don’t want to commit to the full wave. In texts and memes, it can read as playful “no touchy,” an I‑come‑in‑peace vibe, or a sarcastic “that’s enough slices.”
On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing right hand with the thumb sitting on the left edge from your view, fingers evenly spread, rounded tips, and subtle knuckle creases—clean gradients give the medium skin tone a warm, mocha-brown depth. No sleeve, no extras—just a crisp, slightly 3D palm that echoes the crosswalk “don’t walk” hand but way friendlier. Folks also use it to say “gimme five,” count to five, or riff on real-life moments like holding your hand to a security scanner at the airport. Culturally it can nod to openness and protection (think open-hand symbols), and online it’s perfect for dramatizing boundaries with flair: “Back up respectfully,” but make it aesthetic.
The Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3471 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed: Medium 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F590, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128400, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x90, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 90, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 220, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD90, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd90, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56720, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F590 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F590, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128400, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F590\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x90\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD90\uD83C\uDFFD" |
