Raising hands

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Shortcode: :raised_hands:
Shortcode: :raising_hands:
Unicode: U+1F64C
HTML: 🙌
CSS: \1F64C
JavaScript: "\u{1F64C}"
URL: %F0%9F%99%8C

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What 🙌 means

Two hands thrown up in celebration. 🙌 means "hooray," "praise," or "finally!"

Send it for good news, a finished project, a Friday afternoon or answered prayers. In faith settings it reads as "praise God." It fits work wins as well as personal ones.

Some people read it as a high five, but its usual meaning is celebration.

Facts

Raising hands 🙌 is an emoji in the people and body category, under hands. 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 :raised_hands: or :raising_hands:. People also look for it with words like “celebration”, “gesture”, “hand”, or “hands”.