Meaning
A raised hand, often used to mean stop, give a high five, or represent the number five.
Category: People & Body
✋️raised hand
✋️ raised hand belongs to People & Body. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:hand::raised_hand:
Keywords
5fivehandhighraisedstopraised hand
What does ✋️ raised hand mean?
This emoji depicts a human hand with the palm facing forward and fingers held together. It is frequently used to signal stop or to ask someone to wait. It can also represent a high five, a friendly wave, or simply the number five. Depending on context, it might be used to abruptly cut someone off or politely pause a conversation.
Often used for
- Signaling someone to stop or wait
- Celebrating with a high five
- Representing the number 5
- Asking for a pause in a conversation
- Playfully rejecting an idea or telling someone to stop talking
Tone: The tone can range from friendly and celebratory to demanding or dismissive, depending heavily on the surrounding text. Using it to mean stop might come across as abrupt if not softened by context.
✋️ in real messages
- wait ✋️ don't send that yet
- high five for finishing the project! ✋️
- ✋️ i need a minute to think about this
- can i get 5 of those? ✋️
- ok stop ✋️ you're being ridiculous
Combos, text art & scenes with ✋️
Related text art & kaomoji
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✋🙂🤚
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✋😮🤚
✋🏿🧑🏿🦲🤚🏿🔫👮🏻
🍒👙⬇️✋🤤
✋︎
👨🙋🏻♂️✋🇦🇹🇩🇪
✋🙂↕️
✋😃
How ✋️ raised hand looks
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✋️ raised hand codes for developers
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| Emoji | ✋️ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+270B U+FE0F | |
| HTML (decimal) | ✋️ | |
| HTML (hex) | ✋️ | |
| CSS | \270B\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{270B}\u{FE0F} | |
| JSON | \u270B\uFE0F | |
| URL encoded | %E2%9C%8B%EF%B8%8F | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :hand: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :raised_hand: |
✋️ in other languages
Spanishmano levantadaFrenchmain levéeGermanerhobene HandItalianmano alzataPortuguesemão levantadaRussianподнятая ладоньJapanese挙手Korean손바닥Chinese举起手Lithuanianiškelta rankaPolishwzniesiona dłoń
Source: Unicode CLDR
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