raised hand

A raised hand

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Code points
U+270B
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People & Body

Meaning

A raised hand. Conveys volunteering, greeting, or "stop".

Raised hand — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

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Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Quick facts

Quick facts

Code points
U+270B
Unicode name
raised hand
Category
People & BodyOpen hand fingers
Unicode
6.0 · 2010Emoji 0.6
Skin tones
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Keywords
5fivehandhighraisedstopemojimeaningmean

Developer

Single code point
Unicode data
Code pointsU+270B
Unicode nameraised hand
UTF-8E2 9C 8B
Shortcodes
Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):raised_hand:
HTML & CSS
HTML (hex)✋
HTML (decimal)✋
CSS\270B
Languages
JavaScript\u{270B}
Python\u270B
Perl\x{270B}
PHP / Ruby\u{270B}
Encodings
Punycodexn--6bi
URL escape code%E2%9C%8B

Frequently asked

What does ✋ raised hand mean?

A raised hand. Conveys volunteering, greeting, or "stop".

What are the Unicode codepoints and shortcode for ✋ raised hand?

U+270B (Unicode 6.0, 2010) · :raised_hand:

Which emojis are related to ✋ raised hand?

👋 waving hand, 👋🏻 waving hand: light skin tone, 👋🏼 waving hand: medium-light skin tone, 👋🏽 waving hand: medium skin tone, 👋🏾 waving hand: medium-dark skin tone, 👋🏿 waving hand: dark skin tone, 🤚 raised back of hand, 🤚🏻 raised back of hand: light skin tone