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✋🏾 Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone Emoji

This is the medium-dark skin tone variant of the ✋ raised hand emoji, commonly used for show a gesture in chat, react without a long reply, add tone to thanks or agreement.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
Category
People & Body
Subcategory
Hand Fingers Open
Unicode
U+270B U+1F3FE
Emoji version
Emoji 1.0
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The ✋🏾 raised hand: medium-dark skin tone emoji is the medium-dark skin tone variant of ✋ raised hand. The raised hand emoji represents raised hand gestures, reactions, agreement, emphasis, or nonverbal tone and often helps set human presence, gesture, activity, or conversational warmth. In casual chats it can stand alone as a reaction; in captions or bios it usually supports nearby words. Interpretation can shift with culture, platform design, and surrounding text, so it is best treated as a flexible cue rather than a complete sentence. The skin tone modifies its visual appearance while maintaining its core meaning.

Quick Meaning

This is the medium-dark skin tone variant of the ✋ raised hand emoji, commonly used for show a gesture in chat, react without a long reply, add tone to thanks or agreement.

Use Cases

How People Use ✋🏾

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Show a gesture in chat

Show a gesture in chat.

React without a long reply

React without a long reply.

Add tone to thanks or agreement

Add tone to thanks or agreement.

Support short social captions

Support short social captions.

Real Messages

✋🏾 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ✋🏾.

“Raised Hand says this works for me ✋”

“Thanks for the help, raised hand style ✋”

“That raised hand gesture says it clearly ✋”

Lookup Data

Names, Keywords and Search Terms

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Official Name

Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Subcategory: Hand Fingers Open

Aliases & Common Names

  • raised hand
  • raised hand medium-dark skin tone

Keywords & Search Terms

  • raised hand
  • raised
  • hand
  • fingers
  • open
  • person
  • gesture
  • body
  • people
  • role
  • activity
  • identity
Developer Reference

✋🏾 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+270B U+1F3FE
Code points
U+270B U+1F3FE
UTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x9C 0x8B 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE
UTF-16
\u270B\uD83C\uDFFE
HTML decimal entity
✋🏾
HTML hexadecimal entity
✋🏾
JavaScript escape
\u{270B}\u{1F3FE}
CSS escape
\270B \1F3FE
Python string
\u270B\U0001F3FE
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for ✋🏾

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
✋
U+270BRaised Hand
+
Step 2
🏾
U+1F3FEMedium-Dark Skin Tone
Variations

Emoji Variants

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Emoji Styles

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Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji in OpenMoji style

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This is the medium-dark skin tone variant of the ✋ raised hand emoji, commonly used for show a gesture in chat, react without a long reply, add tone to thanks or agreement.