writing hand: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 270D 1F3FC
Description
Raised Hand: Light Skin Tone. A hand raised upwards, with the palm facing towards the viewer and fingers extended, indicating a greeting, a gesture of stopping, or a request for attention. This specific emoji includes a modifier for light skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > hand-prop
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Can convey various emotions depending on context: greeting, waving goodbye, expressing 'stop' or 'high five', or simply a raised hand to indicate a desire to speak or participate.
Backstory
The basic 'Raised Hand' emoji (U+270B) was part of Unicode 6.0 (2010). Skin tone modifiers were introduced later with Unicode 8.0 (2015) to allow for more diverse representation of human emojis. The combination of U+270D and U+1F3FC specifically refers to the raised hand with a light skin tone.
Usage Examples
- Greeting someone: 'Hey! 👋🏻'
- Waving goodbye: 'See you later! 👋🏻'
- Asking to speak: 'Can I say something? 👋🏻'
- Signaling 'stop': 'Stop right there! 👋🏻'
- Acknowledging someone: 'Got it! 👋🏻'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used for '👋' (waving), '✋' (stop/high five), or '✋' (I have a question/I want to speak).
East Asian culture:
Similar uses for waving or stopping, but can also be used as a general gesture of agreement or acknowledgment in some contexts.