✋ Raised Hand

Unicode lists ✋ Raised Hand among the open-hand gestures in the People & Body group. It usually appears in messages about 5, five, hand and high. Further official keywords are raised and stop.

✋ works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. Added in 2010 with Emoji 0.6, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+270B. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• ✋ on its own already flags the topic: 5.
• Fits messages about 5, five, hand and high.
• Often seen near ✋🏻 Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone, 🖐🏻 Hand with Fingers Splayed: Light Skin Tone and 🖐️ Hand with Fingers Splayed.

• ✋🖐️ – Raised Hand and Hand with Fingers Splayed
• ✋🤚 – Raised Hand with Raised Back of Hand
• ✋👋 – Raised Hand plus Waving Hand
• ✋🫱 – Raised Hand and Rightwards Hand
• ✋🫲 – Raised Hand with Leftwards Hand
• ✋🖖 – Raised Hand plus Vulcan Salute

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