Raising Hands Emoji
Copy 🙌 with one click, or read what it means and how to type it below.
What does 🙌 mean?
Two hands raised with motion lines. Celebration, praise, or relief.
🙌 is the raising hands emoji. It belongs to the People & Body group, in the hands set, and was approved as part of Emoji 0.6.
People also search for it as celebration, gesture, hand, hands, hooray, praise, raised, raising.
How to use 🙌
Used for good news and congratulations. In some contexts it carries a worshipful or “hallelujah” sense.
Click the copy button above to put 🙌 on your clipboard, then paste it anywhere Unicode is supported — WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Discord, Slack, email, or a document. On Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :raised_hands: directly.
Good to know
Its Unicode name is “raising hands”; the old shortcode :raised_hands: is what most keyboards still search on.
Skin tone variants
Raising Hands supports 5 skin tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Technical details
| Name | Raising Hands |
|---|---|
| Character | 🙌 |
| Codepoint | U+1F64C |
| HTML entity | 🙌 |
| CSS code | \1F64C |
| Shortcode | :raised_hands: |
| Category | People & Body |
| Subgroup | hands |
| Emoji version | Emoji 0.6 |
| Keywords | celebration, gesture, hand, hands, hooray, praise, raised, raising |