Raised hand

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Shortcode: :hand:
Shortcode: :raised_hand:
Unicode: U+270B
HTML: ✋
CSS: \270B
JavaScript: "\u{270B}"
URL: %E2%9C%8B

What ✋ means

An upright palm that says "stop," "wait," or "me!" ✋ also stands in for a high five.

Use it to halt a topic ("✋ no spoilers"), to volunteer for a task, or to give a high five. "Talk to the hand ✋" is the sassy version. In meetings and work chat it can mean "I have a question."

Facts

Raised hand ✋ 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 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :hand: or :raised_hand:. People also look for it with words like “5”, “five”, “hand”, or “high”.