Shown from the back rather than the palm, fingers held together, the raised-back-of-hand emoji reads as a firmer 'stop' or 'halt' than its palm-forward cousin. It's less common in casual chat, mostly popping up as a stylized alternative to the raised hand for emphasis.
What 🤚 means
A raised arm showing the back of the hand (the tanned, darker side of your hand), this emoji denotes a way of showing contempt, indifference, apathy, and rejection.
The 🤚 Raised Back of Hand carries an air of hostility, disapproval, being unimpressed, and snubbing someone or something. Apart from the negativity, it can also be used to flash your engagement ring.
This emoji would be available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If he put a ring on it, use 🤚 emoji to show that off (its best to even have the 💍 Ring emoji next to it. It's weird and confusing otherwise).
- 🤚 emoji can also be used to say 'Whatever' or to throw in some attitude into your conversation.
- 🤚 can be used to fling a backhand slap at someone too.
- If you're annoyed with someone, and you need to find a way to push their buttons over text ASAP, pop in 🤚 emoji.
- 🤚 emoji can be used as a reaction to something that you outright hate or reject on the basis of its message on social media.
Other Names
- 🤚 Whatever
- 🤚 Reject
- 🤚 Snub
- 🤚 Annoyed
- 🤚 Irritated
- 🤚 Hatred
- 🤚 Put a Ring on it
- 🤚 Backhand
- 🤚 Engaged
- 🤚 Backhand Slap
- 🤚 Show Off
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hand-fingers-open
- Codepoints
U+1F91A- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0
- Shortcodes
:raised_back_of_hand::back_of_hand:Discord- Keywords
- back, backhand, hand, raised
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 — 🤚 Raised Back of Hand or ⏳ Hourglass Not Done?