Raised Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Raised Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone emoji mean?
The emoji shows a hand with a medium-light skin tone held up with the fingers close together. Commonly used to signal “stop” or, more literally, to raise a hand and get someone’s attention.
This emoji depicts a raised left palm in a medium-light skin tone — the common shade in our region.
Occasionally it’s used as a greeting, especially by left-handed people, but more often it signals solidarity — "we're in this together" — or a celebratory "high five". It can also be used more firmly to mean stop.
Unicode Name
- ✋🏼 Raised Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Raised Hand: Medium-Light Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
✋🏼 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+270B U+1F3FC
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%9C%8B%F0%9F%8F%BC |
| Punycode | xn--6biw648m |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 9C 8B F0 9F 8F BC |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u270B\uD83C\uDFFC |
| C, C++, Python | \u270B\U0001f3fc |
| CSS | \270B \01F3FC |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{270B}\u{1F3FC} |
| Perl | \x{270B}\x{1F3FC} |
| HTML hex | ✋🏼 |
| HTML dec | ✋🏼 |
Tags: hand, high 5, high five, medium-light skin tone, raised hand, 5, five, high, raised, stop
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Open hands & waving