Hands Emojis 👏 🙌 🫶 👐
Browse all 7 hands emojis from the People & Body category. Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard instantly, or open its page for meanings, Unicode codepoints, shortcodes and skin-tone variants.
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What hands emojis are used for
Two-handed gestures, mostly generous ones: applause, celebration, gratitude, care. 🙏 is the most argued-over emoji here - Unicode names it folded hands and most people read it as prayer or thank you, though the high-five reading has never quite died. 🫶 heart hands only arrived in 2021, long after the gesture became standard in selfies.
Hands in the Unicode Standard
Unicode files 7 emojis under Hands, inside the People & Body group. The set was built up over 4 Unicode releases, from Unicode 6.0 (2010) to Emoji 14.0 (2021), so the newer members are the ones most likely to show as a box on an older phone. The most recent additions are 🫶 heart hands. All of them carry skin-tone variants, which each emoji's own page lists in full.