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🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed
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🖐️ Emoji meaning
Stop, keep your distance, wait, five, high-five.
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🖐️ Meaning
“Don't come closer” or “Stop, wait!” The spread out hand can also indicate the number 5 or a high five.
Examples
- Wait up for me. 🖐️
- Whoa, not so fast! 🖐️
- Can I get a high-five? 🖐️
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Commonly confused with
Direction Variant
Splayed hand vs palm up hand; both show open hand with extended fingers, orientation is easy to miss.
Same Shape
Raised hand vs hand with fingers splayed; fingers spread difference is small, both open handed.
Variants
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Hand with fingers splayed” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ fingers + raised + stop
Keywords removed
- hand with fingers splayed
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title renamed
Emoji title before
raised hand with fingers splayed
Emoji title after
hand with fingers splayed
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ hand with fingers splayed
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ finger + hand + splayed
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords removed
- splayed
