A bold open-palm moment, the hand with fingers splayed: dark skin tone says “whoa there” with zero words. It’s the digital equivalent of stepping into frame and hitting pause—great for stop, wait, hold up, and talk to the hand throwbacks straight from the ’90s. People also use it as a one-hand high five, a “not it” disclaimer, or a gentle boundary-setter when a convo gets spicy or TMI. In flirty or ironic chats, it can be a playful “hands off” or a dramatic freeze-frame to a messy group thread. Meme-wise, it doubles as a scroll-stopper in captions like “Before you go—read this,” or as the “I’m Switzerland” neutral hand when you’re staying out of the drama.
The Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2188 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: | Black Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed: Dark 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F590, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128400, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x90, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 90, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 220, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD90, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd90, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56720, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F590 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F590, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128400, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F590\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x90\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD90\uD83C\uDFFF" |
