Meaning
Two hands raised high โ celebration, praise, or 'hooray!'
Raising hands โ Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.
In conversation
For wins, good news, praise/worship contexts, and general excitement.
Tone
Celebratory and loud.
Common uses
- celebrating wins
- good news
- praise
- saying 'finally!'
Watch out
In religious contexts it means praise/worship; elsewhere pure celebration โ know your audience.
Examples
- we did it ๐
- finally friday ๐
- big news ๐
- all the praise ๐
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Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 โ official Unicode data.
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Quick facts
Quick facts
- Code points
U+1F64C- Unicode name
- raising hands
- Category
- People & BodyHands
- Unicode
- 6.0 ยท 2010Emoji 0.6Unicode history
- Skin tones
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- Keywords
- celebrationgesturehandhandshooraypraiseraisedraisingemojimeaningmean
Developer
Unicode data
U+1F64Craising handsF0 9F 99 8CShortcodes
:raising_hands:HTML & CSS
🙌🙌\1F64C Languages
\u{1F64C}\U0001F64C\x{1F64C}\u{1F64C}Encodings
xn--k48h%F0%9F%99%8CSee this emoji in open styles
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What does ๐ raising hands mean?
Two hands raised high โ celebration, praise, or 'hooray!'
How is ๐ raising hands used in conversation?
For wins, good news, praise/worship contexts, and general excitement.
What should I watch out for when using ๐ raising hands?
In religious contexts it means praise/worship; elsewhere pure celebration โ know your audience.