raising hands 🙌 Meaning, Copy & Platform Appearance
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What does 🙌 raising hands Mean?
Raising hands 🙌 is two hands thrown up in celebration — relief, praise and "finally". It's what you send when a long-running thing resolves: "the visa came through 🙌". It differs from 👏, which applauds someone else, and from 🤲, which is open palms held out; 🙌 is your own joy, and it comes in five skin tones.
- 💡General Use: raising hands
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
Its Unicode name is "person raising both hands in celebration", but it has a strong second life as praise hands in Black American church and gospel contexts, and it is regularly used as a hallelujah gesture online. In Slack `:raised_hands:` is a common alternative to `:tada:` for congratulating a teammate. A frequent mix-up: 🙏 is folded hands for prayer or thanks, not a high five — the high-five reading is a persistent myth, and if you want an actual high five 🙌 is the closer emoji.
How 🙌 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the raising hands emoji is rendered on major platforms like Apple, Google, and WhatsApp.
*Images come from open-licensed emoji sets (Twemoji CC BY 4.0, Noto Apache 2.0, OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0). Apple and WhatsApp sets are proprietary and cannot be hosted; the "Your Device" card shows your own OS emoji font — on iPhone/Mac that is the Apple design. Click any card to copy the emoji.
When to Use raising hands?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 🙌
Messaging
Hey, check this out 🙌
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 🙌
Status
Feeling 🙌 today
How to Type raising hands on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "raising hands"
- Select 🙌
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "raising hands"
- Select 🙌
raising hands HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | raising hands | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F64C | |
| HTML Entity | 🙌 | |
| HTML Hex | 🙌 | |
| CSS Content | \01F64C | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F64C} | |
| Shortcode (Discord, Slack, GitHub) | :raised_hands: | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 0.6 | |
| Year Added | 2010 | |
| Skin Tone Support | Yes |
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