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✋🏾 Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone Emoji

Copy and paste the Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji (✋🏾) in one click. Standardized in Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) (U+270B U+1F3FE) for digital body-language reactions and developer integration.

What Does the Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone Emoji Mean?

Unicode Definition: Depicts the raised hand hand or body gesture (✋🏾), standardized in Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015) (U+270B U+1F3FE). This variant applies the Fitzpatrick Type 5 (Medium-Dark Skin Tone, U+1F3FE), rendering the gesture with a rich brown complexion.

Context & Expression: Translates physical body language—such as approval, greeting, emphasis, celebration, or tactile connection—directly into digital chat.

Modifier Note: ✋🏾 combines the base gesture code point with Fitzpatrick Type 5 (Medium-Dark Skin Tone, U+1F3FE).

Modern Texting & Social Usage

On WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, Instagram, and TikTok, hand gestures like ✋🏾 act as instant punctuation marks. Users select their preferred skin-tone variant to make reactions, co-signs ("this right here ✋🏾"), and celebratory replies feel personal and authentic.

💡 Quick Usage Tip:

Combine ✋🏾 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.

Real-Life Chat Examples

See how the Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.

Tariq

Just pushed the final fix and all unit tests are passing green!

You

Clutch work as always ✋🏾 appreciate you knocking that out so fast!

Tariq

Anytime! Ready for release 🚀

When to Use ✋🏾

  • Acknowledging messages, celebrating team wins, or adding physical emphasis in chat.
  • Personalizing your everyday messaging reactions on WhatsApp, Slack, and iMessage.
  • Pairing with facial emojis to build expressive two-emoji combos.

When to Avoid ✋🏾

  • Cross-cultural contexts where certain hand signs carry different regional meanings.
  • Formal legal contracts or academic citations.
CROSS-PLATFORM DISPLAY

How Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone Looks Across Operating Systems & Fonts

Apple iOS sculptures realistic finger contours and soft lighting; Google Android (Noto) uses clean geometric hand proportions; Samsung and Microsoft Windows render distinct wrist angles and shading.

✋🏾

Apple iOS / macOS Rendering

High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting

System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'
Platform / VendorGlyph PreviewSystem Emoji FontRendering Behavior
Apple iOS / macOS✋🏾Apple Color EmojiHigh-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
Google Android✋🏾Noto Color EmojiClean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry
Samsung One UI✋🏾Samsung Color EmojiVibrant high-contrast One UI color styling
Microsoft Windows✋🏾Segoe UI EmojiFluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags)
X / Discord (Twemoji)✋🏾Twitter Color EmojiFlat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography

Technical & Developer Specifications

Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.

Character✋🏾
Official Unicode NameRaised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
Unicode Code PointU+270B U+1F3FE
HTML Decimal Entity✋🏾
HTML Hex Entity✋🏾
CSS Escape Code\00270B\01F3FE
JavaScript / ES6 Escape\u{270B}\u{1F3FE}
UTF-8 Hex BytesE2 9C 8B F0 9F 8F BE
Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub):raised_hand_medium_dark_skin_tone:
Emoji / Unicode VersionEmoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015)
Category & SubgroupGestures & Body Parts (hand-fingers-open)

Frequently Asked Questions About Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone (✋🏾)

Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.

What is the emotional and conversational meaning of Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone (✋🏾)?

Translates physical body language—such as approval, greeting, emphasis, celebration, or tactile connection—directly into digital chat. It belongs to the Gestures & Body Parts category and was standardized in Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015).

How is the Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji (✋🏾) used on TikTok, Instagram, and Discord?

On WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, Instagram, and TikTok, hand gestures like ✋🏾 act as instant punctuation marks. Users select their preferred skin-tone variant to make reactions, co-signs ("this right here ✋🏾"), and celebratory replies feel personal and authentic.

How do I copy and paste ✋🏾 on iPhone, Android, Mac, or Windows?

Click the "Copy Emoji (✋🏾)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.

What are the Unicode, HTML, CSS, and JS developer codes for Raised Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone?

The Unicode code point is U+270B U+1F3FE (Emoji 1.0 / Unicode 8.0 (2015)). In HTML use ✋🏾 or ✋🏾; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\00270B\01F3FE"; in JavaScript use "\u{270B}\u{1F3FE}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :raised_hand_medium_dark_skin_tone:.

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