The raised back of hand is the digital equivalent of putting your hand up in class like, “Hi, yes, it’s me, I know this one.” It’s used for volunteering, asking to speak, or softly admitting guilt—gives big “guilty as charged but make it cute” energy. People also drop it as a subtle wave, a flirty pick-me gesture, or an “um actually…” moment when they’re about to chime in with a take. In meme land, it pairs well with captions like “who relates?” or “who did this?”—cue a chorus of hands.
On Apple devices, you’ll spot a mustard-yellow hand seen from the back, four fingers lifted with a gentle curve, thumb tucked along the side, knuckles and tiny nail hints visible, and that smooth iOS gradient shading. It’s instantly recognizable because you don’t see palm lines—just the knuckle creases like a tiny “I’m here” flag. Beauty and fashion folks love it for manicure reveals since it mimics the classic nail-photo pose, often teamed with sparkles. It’s also an inside joke for “backhanded compliment” puns or even tennis backhand references, and during video calls it doubles as the “raise your hand” vibe without unmuting.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 384 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤚 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤚 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤚 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤚 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f91a |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F91A |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129306 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x9A |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 9A |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 232 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD1A |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd1a |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56602 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F91A |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F91A |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129306 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F91A" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x9a" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD1A" |
