Five fingers spread wide, palm facing out, the hand-with-fingers-splayed emoji works as a high-five, a 'stop right there,' or a literal count to five. Context does most of the work — it's the same shape whether someone's celebrating or warning someone off.
What 🖐️ means
A raised hand with all five fingers spread apart, this emoji denotes 'Hi', but without the waving. It's the kind of hand movement you would use when you hear your name in a crowd.
The 🖐 Hand With Fingers Splayed emoji can also signify a high five or even be used to say 'Stop', 'Enough', 'STFU', etc. This emoji is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.
How and when to use it
- Use 🖐 emoji while greeting someone, but not as excited.
- 🖐 can be used to tell someone to stop.
- 🖐 can also be used as a response to something cringy and uncomfortable on social media; as a way of conveying 'STOP', 'OMG, what is this', 'I can't unsee this now', etc.
- Send 🖐 emoji as a high five to your homies.
- You can also use 🖐 emoji as a way of saying 'Enough'.
- 🖐 can be used to say 'Present' or 'I'm in here' - it works best for group chats, it's pointless otherwise.
Other Names
- 🖐 Hey
- 🖐 Bye
- 🖐 Present
- 🖐 In Here!
- 🖐 Enough
- 🖐 STFU
- 🖐 Stop
- 🖐 Five Hand
- 🖐 Splayed Hand
- 🖐 Social Distancing
- 🖐 Talk to My Hand
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hand-fingers-open
- Codepoints
U+1F590 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:GitHub- Keywords
- finger, fingers, hand, raised, splayed, stop
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🖐️ Hand with Fingers Splayed or 🃏 Joker?