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🖐️Hand With Fingers Splayed Emoji
Tagged finger, fingers and hand, 🖐️ hand with fingers splayed sits in Unicode's Fingers Open group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Unicode 7.0 (2014) at U+1F590 U+FE0F.
What 🖐️ hand with fingers splayed means
Greetings, stopping someone, and offering something. 👋 opens and closes conversations; ✋ can mean stop, high five, or raising a hand to speak. 🖖 is the Vulcan salute from Star Trek, which Unicode formally names 'raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers'. The directional 🫱 and 🫲 arrived in 2021 so handshakes could mix two skin tones.
Unicode tags this one finger, fingers and hand and files it under People & Body → Fingers Open.
Copy variants
hand with fingers splayed carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 🖐️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 🖐U+1F590hand with fingers splayed
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F590 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🖐️ | |
| HTML decimal | 🖐️ | |
| CSS | \1F590\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F590}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F590\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD90\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f590}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F590}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F590}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%96%90%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 96 90 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD90 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+WkO+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128400 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 7.0 (2014) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🖐️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🖐️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “hand with fingers splayed”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “finger”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f590and Enter. - HTML — paste
🖐️.
How 🖐️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🖐️Apple
- 🖐️Segoe
- 🖐️Noto
- 🖐️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🖐️ hand with fingers splayed emoji mean?+
🖐️ is the hand with fingers splayed emoji, tagged finger, fingers and hand. Greetings, stopping someone, and offering something. 👋 opens and closes conversations; ✋ can mean stop, high five, or raising a hand to speak. 🖖 is the Vulcan salute from Star Trek, which Unicode formally names 'raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers'. The directional 🫱 and 🫲 arrived in 2021 so handshakes could mix two skin tones.
What is the Unicode code for 🖐️?+
hand with fingers splayed is U+1F590 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🖐️, in CSS \1F590\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F590}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🖐️ emoji added?+
hand with fingers splayed got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Fingers Open in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🖐️ hand with fingers splayed.