Raising Hands Emoji
🙌
What does the Raising Hands emoji mean?
1
Two hands raised high, mostly used to celebrate a success or express joyful excitement.
2
Two yellow human hands, raised slightly apart with the palms facing the viewer. Small red or blue dashes at the top suggest a lively, celebratory “hurrah!” motion.
Use this emoji to react to good news, to share proud moments, or to celebrate a happy update with someone. It’s a cheerful stand‑in for the word "Hooray!".
Also Known As
- 🙌 Arms In The Air
- 🙌 Banzai
- 🙌 Festivus Miracle
- 🙌 Hallelujah
- 🙌 Praise Hands
- 🙌 Two Hands
Apple Name
- 🙌 Hands Raised in Celebration
Unicode Name
- 🙌 Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Raising Hands emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🙌 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F64C
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%99%8C |
| Punycode | xn--k48h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 99 8C |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDE4C |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f64c |
| CSS | \01F64C |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F64C} |
| Perl | \x{1F64C} |
| HTML hex | 🙌 |
| HTML dec | 🙌 |
Tags: celebration, gesture, hand, hooray, raised, raising hands, hands, praise, raising
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Other hand gestures