Hand with fingers splayed

An open hand with the fingers spread wide. 🖐️ can mean "stop," "hi," a high five, or the number five.

It counts to five, waves hello, or halts a conversation. Some people use it for jazz hands or to show off a fresh manicure. It shows up less than ✋ but carries a similar tone.

The spread fingers set it apart from ✋, where the fingers stay together.

Facts

Hand with fingers splayed 🖐️ is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand fingers open. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 7.0 (2014). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: or :hand_with_fingers_splayed:. People also look for it with words like “finger”, “fingers”, “hand”, or “raised”.

Timeline

1. 2014Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 7.0)
2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Unicode 7.0