Raised back of hand

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Shortcode: :raised_back_of_hand:
Unicode: U+1F91A
HTML: 🤚
CSS: \1F91A
JavaScript: "\u{1F91A}"
URL: %F0%9F%A4%9A

What 🤚 means

A hand raised with its back facing out. 🤚 says "wait," "hold on," or "me," like raising a hand in class.

"🤚 hold on" pauses a conversation, and a raised hand can also volunteer for something. Some people pair it with ✋ for a high five. It is far less common than ✋, so context sets the meaning.

It is the back of the hand; ✋ shows the palm.

Facts

Raised back of hand 🤚 is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand fingers open. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 3.0, released in 2016. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :raised_back_of_hand:. People also look for it with words like “back”, “backhand”, “hand”, or “raised”.