🙌 raising hands Skin Tones — All 5 Variants
Raising hands is celebration: praise, success, cheering someone on. The gesture is meant to be loud and joyful, and because it is two open hands the five skin-tone modifiers change the picture visibly. Sports fans, birthday wishes and “we did it!” messages are its natural habitat, with or without a modifier.
The five variants
🙌🏻raising hands: light skin toneU+1F64C U+1F3FB🙌🏼raising hands: medium-light skin toneU+1F64C U+1F3FC🙌🏽raising hands: medium skin toneU+1F64C U+1F3FD🙌🏾raising hands: medium-dark skin toneU+1F64C U+1F3FE🙌🏿raising hands: dark skin toneU+1F64C U+1F3FF
Every variant copies exactly like the base character: tap a card and the sequence is on your clipboard, ready to paste anywhere. Skin-tone modifiers (U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF) were added to the standard in Unicode 8.0 (2015). raising hands itself was added in Emoji E0.6 (2010).
Usage and context
It works alone or in stacks: “finally 🙌”, “congrats 🎉🙌”, and it multiplies well with party and trophy emoji. Choosing your own skin tone is common in personal wins — a graduation, a job offer, a finished run — while group celebrations often keep the default yellow to represent everyone at once. The tone is always positive; there is no sarcastic reading to worry about.
Safe everywhere. In Japanese visual culture a raised-hands figure can read as “banzai”-style cheer, which still fits the celebration meaning.
Skin tones for other emoji
waving hand · folded hands · thumbs up · thumbs down · flexed biceps · nail polish · raised back of hand · hand with fingers splayed · raised hand · vulcan salute · ok hand · pinched fingers · victory hand · crossed fingers · love you gesture · sign of the horns · call me hand · backhand index pointing right · backhand index pointing up · middle finger · index pointing up · raised fist · oncoming fist · clapping hands · palms up together · handshake