🙌Person raising hands Emoji

🙌 Raising hands

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🙌 Emoji meaning

Celebrating success, joy, good vibes, jubilation.

Table of Contents

  1.  Meaning
  2.  Confused With
  3.  Variants
  4.  Emoji History
  5.  Similar Emojis
  6.  Platforms
  7.  Emoji Details
  8.  Comments

🙌 Meaning

Hallelujah! Hands are stretched upwards to celebrate. Is having a party, dancing wildly and friskily. Is in a good mood or having a lot of fun. Can also stand for “Banzai”, a Japanese cheer that brings luck and joy for 10,000 years.

Examples

  • We crushed it! 🙌
  • Did you hear the news? 🙌
  • Finally, it’s the weekend. 🙌

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Commonly confused with

Same Shape

Raising hands
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Clapping hands

Raising hands vs clapping; both are positive reactions for success or praise.

Raising hands
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Folded hands

Raising hands vs folded hands; both can be used to thank or praise, especially in religious contexts.

Variants

Skin tones
Raising hands
Raising hands: light skin tone
Raising hands: medium-light skin tone
Raising hands: medium skin tone
Raising hands: medium-dark skin tone
Raising hands: dark skin tone

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Raising hands” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ hands + praise + raising

Keywords removed

- raising hands

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ raising hands

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there were 2 changes.

Emoji title renamed

Emoji title before

person raising hands

Emoji title after

raising hands

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ celebration + gesture + hand + hooray + raised

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- hooray

Similar emojis from "Hands and Body Parts"

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Hands and Body Parts
👋 Waving hand 🤚 Raised back of hand 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed ✋ Raised hand 🖖 Vulcan salute 🫱 Rightwards hand 🫲 Leftwards hand 🫴 Palm up hand 🫳 Palm down hand 🫷 Leftwards pushing hand 🫸 Rightwards pushing hand 👌 OK hand 🤌 Pinched fingers 🤏 Pinching hand ✌️ Victory hand 🤞 Crossed fingers 🫰 Hand with index finger and thumb crossed 🤟 Love-you gesture 🤘 Sign of the horns 🤙 Call me hand 👈 Backhand index pointing left 👉 Backhand index pointing right 👆 Backhand index pointing up 🖕 Middle finger 👇 Backhand index pointing down ☝️ Index pointing up 🫵 Index pointing at the viewer 👍 Thumbs up 👎 Thumbs down 👊 Oncoming fist ✊ Raised fist 🤛 Left-facing fist 🤜 Right-facing fist 👏 Clapping hands 🙌 Raising hands 🫶 Heart hands 👐 Open hands 🤲 Palms up together 🤝 Handshake 🙏 Folded hands ✍️ Writing hand 💅 Nail polish 🤳 Selfie 💪 Flexed biceps 🦾 Mechanical arm 🦿 Mechanical leg 🦵 Leg 🦶 Foot 👂 Ear 🦻 Ear with hearing aid 👃 Nose 🧠 Brain 🫀 Anatomical heart 🫁 Lungs 🦷 Tooth 🦴 Bone 👀 Eyes 👁️ Eye 👅 Tongue 👄 Mouth 🫦 Biting lip 👣 Footprints 🫆 Fingerprint 🧬 Dna 🩸 Drop of blood
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Comments

(6) Comments

  • It can also be used to give someone a blessing, or as a situational symbol to have someone bow to you out of respect.

  • This emoji actually means "God bless you. 🙌️"

  • Means 'I agree.'

  • Calling a person.

  • Wow!

  • Many people I know use it to represent a "hug."