✋🏻 Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone

✋🏻 Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone is one of the open-hand gestures in Unicode's People & Body group. People send it when the subject is 5, five, hand and high. Unicode also files it under light skin tone, raised and stop, which shows how widely it is read.

✋🏻 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. It joined the standard with Emoji 1.0 in 2015, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+270B U+1F3FB.

• A single ✋🏻 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about 5, five, hand and high.
• Often seen near ✋ Raised Hand, 🖐🏻 Hand with Fingers Splayed: Light Skin Tone and 🖖 Vulcan Salute.

• ✋🏻🖐️ – Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone and Hand with Fingers Splayed
• ✋🏻🤚 – Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone with Raised Back of Hand
• ✋🏻🫱 – Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone plus Rightwards Hand
• ✋🏻🫲 – Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone and Leftwards Hand
• ✋🏻🖖 – Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone with Vulcan Salute

Easy to mix up with ✋ Raised Hand, 🖐🏻 Hand with Fingers Splayed: Light Skin Tone or 🖖 Vulcan Salute. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.