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✋️Raised Hand Emoji

Tagged 5, five and hand, ✋️ raised hand sits in Unicode's Fingers Open group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+270B U+FE0F.

What ✋️ raised 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 5, five and hand and files it under People & Body → Fingers Open.

Copy variants

raised hand 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+270Braised hand
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+270B U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`✋️`
HTML decimal	`✋️`
CSS	`\270B\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{270B}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0000270B\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u270B\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{270b}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{270B}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{270B}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%9C%8B%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 9C 8B EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`270B FE0F`
Base64	`4pyL77iP`
Decimal	`9995 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Skin-tone variants

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

Keywords

5
five
hand
high
raised
stop

Appears in these collections

How to type ✋️

Windows — press Win + . and search “raised hand”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “5”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 270b 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 hand emoji mean?+

✋️ is the raised hand emoji, tagged 5, five 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 hand is U+270B U+FE0F. In HTML that is ✋️, in CSS \270B\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{270B}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ✋️ emoji added?+

raised hand got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ✋️ raised hand.