The hand with fingers splayed: medium-dark skin tone is the internet’s friendly “whoa there” sign—five fingers fanned out like a human stop sign, but with good vibes. It’s perfect for setting boundaries (“no touchy”), grabbing attention (“pause, bestie”), or delivering a dramatic “talk to the hand” throwback straight from the 90s. People also use it as jazz-hands-lite for excitement, a quick “hi, I’m here,” or a playful “back off my snacks.” Pair it with caps-lock text and you’ve basically built a stop-scrolling social post.
On Apple/iOS, the palm faces forward in a clean, front-view pose, with all five fingers separated and slightly curved, thumb angled outward. The medium-dark skin tone shows up as a warm brown gradient with soft shading, subtle palm creases, and rounded edges—no heavy outlines, no accessories, just a crisp, glossy Apple finish. It looks like a still frame of jazz hands mid-sparkle: open, expressive, unmistakable.
In chats and memes, it doubles as a boundary emoji (“don’t @ me”), a dramatic intermission (“AND ANOTHER THING—”), or an awkward wave when you’re not ready to fully commit to social energy. It can read flirty-guarded (“hey… but like, respectfully”), theatrical (“spirit fingers, engage”), or safety-first (“sanitize squad assemble”). Use it to announce presence in group threads, to halt chaotic takes, or to punctuate a reveal with maximum stage energy.
The Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3472 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Darker Brown Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed: Medium-Dark 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F590, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128400, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x90, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 90, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 220, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD90, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd90, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56720, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F590 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F590, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128400, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F590\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x90\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD90\uD83C\uDFFE" |
