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🤚Raised Back Of Hand Emoji

🤚 is the raised back of hand emoji, U+1F91A, one of 11 in the Fingers Open set. It arrived with Emoji 3.0 (2016) and is commonly used for back, backhand and hand.

What 🤚 raised back of hand 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 back, backhand and hand and files it under People & Body → Fingers Open.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F91A`
HTML hex	`🤚`
HTML decimal	`🤚`
CSS	`\1F91A`
JavaScript	`\u{1F91A}`
Python	`\U0001F91A`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDD1A`
Rust	`\u{1f91a}`
Swift	`\u{1F91A}`
PHP	`\u{1F91A}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A4%9A`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A4 9A`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DD1A`
Base64	`8J+kmg==`
Decimal	`129306`
Introduced	Emoji 3.0 (2016)

Skin-tone variants

The 🤚 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.

Keywords

back
backhand
hand
raised

Appears in these collections

How to type 🤚

Windows — press Win + . and search “raised back of hand”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “back”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f91a and 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 🤚 raised back of hand emoji mean?+

🤚 is the raised back of hand emoji, tagged back, backhand 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 🤚?+

raised back of hand is U+1F91A. In HTML that is 🤚, in CSS \1F91A, and in JavaScript \u{1F91A}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🤚 emoji added?+

raised back of hand got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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.

Added in Emoji 3.0 (2016)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤚 raised back of hand.