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Raised Hand Emoji ✋

Palm forward, fingers pressed together, the raised-hand emoji is basically the internet's all-purpose stop, high five, or hi. It shows up to halt an argument mid-scroll just as often as it shows up to greet someone or ask a question in a group chat.

What ✋ means

A raised hand showing the palm, this emoji signifies acceptance, agreement, and even standing by certain values, principles, people, etc. It can also denote a way of saying 'Stop', 'Halt', 'Enough', etc.

The ✋ Raised Hand emoji would be available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms (because, no one, except the Simpsons, is yellow).

How and when to use it

If your homies are taking a vote on something very crucial and you liked the plan, use ✋ emoji as a way of saying that you're in for the plan.
✋ can be used to even say 'Stop' or 'Enough'.
If someone trying to get too close too soon, send ✋ emoji to mean 'Halt'.
✋ emoji can also be used as a high five from one end.
If you agree or stand by something that you witnessed on social media, you can use ✋ emoji as a reaction to that particular post.
If you're on a group chat, and everyone's throwing in their opinions and no one's giving a rat's derrière about yours, repeatedly send ✋ emoji to get some much-needed attention.

Other Names

✋ Agree
✋ I'm in
✋ Enough
✋ Stop
✋ High Five
✋ Stand By
✋ Halt
✋ Present
✋ I Know What You're Doing
✋ Enough Said
✋ Talk to My Hand

✋ in real conversations

What does ✋ mean in texting?

Stop — hold up, pause right there. Dropped mid-conversation it's a hard interrupt: 'wait, ✋, back up' means slow down before saying anything else.

What does ✋ mean from a girl?

Often 'talk to the hand' — a dismissive way to shut down an excuse or a weak argument without spelling out the rejection. It also works as a plain high-five for good news.

What does ✋ mean in a group chat?

Raising a hand to volunteer — 'who's free Friday?' followed by ✋ means count me in, the same gesture as answering roll call in class.

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › hand-fingers-open
Codepoints: U+270B
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :hand: GitHub · Slack:raised_hand:
Keywords: 5, five, hand, high, raised, 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.