Raised Back of Hand Emoji
What does the Raised Back of Hand emoji mean?
A bright yellow raised hand shown from the back — mostly used to signal agreement or show support.
A yellow right-hand emoji shows the fingers held together with the palm facing out and the thumb off to the side. It looks like someone raising their hand—just as if you were sitting at a school desk.
People typically use this emoji to grab the attention of others in a chat. It’s especially useful in large conferences or meetings when someone needs to be called on to speak. The hand can also signal agreement, for example during voting.
Also Known As
- 🤚 Backhand
Apple Name
- 🤚 Back of Hand
Unicode Name
- 🤚 Raised Back of Hand
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Raised Back of Hand emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🤚 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F91A
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A4%9A |
| Punycode | xn--2p9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F A4 9A |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83E\uDD1A |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f91a |
| CSS | \01F91A |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F91A} |
| Perl | \x{1F91A} |
| HTML hex | 🤚 |
| HTML dec | 🤚 |
Tags: backhand, raised, raised back of hand, back, hand
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Open hands & waving