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The raised hand emoji shows a hand with broad fingers opening upwards and palm facing forward. This emoji was first introduced in 2010. The raised hand emoji is often used to get attention and conveys different messages according to the situation.
🖐️Uses Of The raised hand emoji
The raised hand emoji is used for different expressions like hate,curse,hi greetings etc. This emoji can have different meanings and it conveys several different meanings.
- Wave or Greetings: The 🖐️ can be used to greet someone or say hi or goodbye to someone because it is very similar to a wave that we often used as sign of greetings.
- Curse: The raised hand emoji with broad fingers can be used to curse someone or to show anger in an argument you open, use this emoji on social media to insult someone etc.
- Attention: the raised and emoji with open broad fingers can be used as a sign of attention in any conversation when someone wants to get permission and speak.
- Halt or pause: the ✋ with broad fingers can also be used to halt or pause someone from doing anything. It indicates stopping someone from a thing that you don't want them to do.
- Celebration or excitement: the ✋ with open fingers can be used as a sign of celebration or excitement because people in excitement shows their hand up with broad fingers. The raised emoji can be used in parties as a sign of dance or calling someone.
| Name | Raised Hand |
|---|---|
| Codepoint | U+270B |
| Unicode | Raised Hand |
| Apple Name | Raised Hand |
| Android Name | Raised Hand |
| Shortcode | :hand: (GitHub, Slack) |