✋ Meaning – Raised Hand Emoji

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This emoji represents a raised hand showing the palm and it is part of the hand-gesture emoji group. It is used in different contexts but the most common are two: Hand Emoji can be seen as a gesture for indicating to stop or as a waving hand for saying hello or goodbye.

The Raised Hand Emoji appeared in 2010, and now is mainly known as the Hand Emoji, but also may be reffered as the High Five Emoji. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Raised Hands Emoji.

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Hand Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+270B
Unicode name: Raised Hand
Category: Smileys & People / Body
Keywords: hand, body
Windows Alt-code: Alt+270B
Decimal HTML Entity: ✋
Hex HTML Entity: ✋
UTF-16 hex: 0x270B
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Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

✋ emoji variants

Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone

Raised Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Raised Hand: Medium Skin Tone

Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Raised Hand: Dark Skin Tone

Raised Fist

Hand with Fingers Splayed

Person Raising Hand

Raised Back of Hand

Person Gesturing No

Man and Woman Holding Hands

Person Tipping Hand

Writing Hand

Thumbs Down

Two Women Holding Hands

Two Men Holding Hands

Face with Hand Over Mouth

Love-You Gesture

Person Gesturing Ok

Gloves

🌐 Hand Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	erhobene Hand	Hand
Français	main levée	feuille, main
Русский	поднятая ладонь	вверх, пальцы, рука
Español	mano levantada	levantada, mano
Italiano	mano alzata	alzata, carta, mano
Português	mão levantada	mão erguida
Polski	wzniesiona dłoń	dłoń, stop, uwaga

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How to type Raised Hand Emoji

There are number of methods to type Hand Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste ✋ emoji

It's very easy to get Raised Hand Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read ✋ meaning and look at ✋ pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

✋ emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.