Both hands thrown up, palms facing out, the raising-hands emoji is pure celebration — a cheer, a hallelujah, or an emphatic finally. It shows up for good news, big wins, and anything worth throwing your hands up about.
What 🙌 means
Two hands parallelly raised high in the air along with tiny animated marks on top of them to give out a cheerful vibe. This emoji signifies applause, cheer, happiness, excitement, celebration and encouragement.
The 🙌 Raising Hands can also convey a sense of praise, worship, or even the famous social media trend of "Preach"; where you firmly stand by whatever the other person is saying or doing. It is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If someone just texted you about something celebratory, send the 🙌 emoji to share in that happiness.
- You can also send 🙌 while sharing something exciting with your friends (and family too, but they most likely would not get the emoji).
- It also signifies the Christian style of worship and praise. So, while messaging your Church buddies, or making exciting Christmas plans, you can use 🙌.
- If you're really thankful for someone or something in your life, use 🙌 to convey gratitude.
- If your chat group(s) just messaged about something unbelievable, like a school holiday or something, send 🙌 to show that you're more than happy (if you really are, that is).
- If you completely agree by someone or something that you witnessed on your social media feed or DMs, send 🙌.
Other Names
- 🙌 Cheer
- 🙌 Yaas
- 🙌 Yaas Queen
- 🙌 Hallelujah
- 🙌 Praise
- 🙌 Preach
- 🙌 Gratitude
- 🙌 Arms in the Air
- 🙌 Praise Hands
- 🙌 Two Hands
- 🙌 Yaay!
- 🙌 Excitement
- 🙌 Hurray
- 🙌 Banzai
- 🙌 Festivus Miracle
- 🙌 Celebration
- 🙌 Hands Raised in Celebration
- 🙌 Hands Down
- 🙌 Celebrate
🙌 in real conversations
What does 🙌 mean?
Celebration and praise — both hands up like the moment right after good news lands. It covers everything from "we did it" to "thank goodness that's over."
What does 🙌 mean in texting?
Enthusiastic agreement or celebration — "🙌🙌🙌" under good news is pure hype. It's more triumphant than 👏, closer to a crowd cheering than polite applause.
Is 🙌 religious?
It can be — the pose matches hands raised in worship or "praise be," and plenty of people use it that way. Just as often it's secular hype for a win, a birthday, or a long week finally ending; the emoji doesn't pick a side.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hands
- Codepoints
U+1F64C- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:raised_hands::raising_hands:Discord- Keywords
- celebration, gesture, hand, hands, hooray, praise, raised, raising
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
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🙌 Raising Hands or 🇳🇷 Flag: Nauru?
Runs with a crowd
🙌 keeps company in hand emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.