✋ "raised hand" emoji (copy and paste)
raised hand
A hand held up showing its palm. May be used to mean stop, or as a high-five.
Meaning of the raised hand Emoji
The Raised Hand emoji depicts a hand held up with its palm facing outward. It can be used to signify stopping someone or something, or as a gesture for a high-five, indicating agreement, celebration, or acknowledgment. This emoji was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Usage Examples
- Stop right there! ✋
- Let's celebrate with a high-five! ✋
- I need a moment, please wait. ✋
- Agreeing with the idea, she raised her hand. ✋
- He signaled stop with a raised hand. ✋
Alternative Names
raised hand, high five, stop
Related Word Associations
hand, raised, palm, stop, high-five
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the ✋ raised hand emoji for cross-platform use:
PNG format:
SVG format:
Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+270B
- Version:
- Emoji E0.6
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :raised_hand: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :raised_hand: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :raised_hand: |
| HTML Dec | ✋ |
| HTML Hex | ✋ |
| CSS | \270B |
| C, C++ & Python | \u270B |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \u270B |
| Perl | \x{270B} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{270B} |
| Punycode | xn--1fi |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%9C%8B |
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