Raising Hands: Medium-dark Skin Tone

🙌🏾 is the medium-dark skin tone version of 🙌 Raising Hands. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them. 🙌 is raising hands. It means celebration, “hooray” or praise.

See the default 🙌 Raising Hands emoji and all skin tones

Skin tones

Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.

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

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

CLDR short name: raising hands: medium-dark skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F64C U+1F3FE
Hex: 1F64C 1F3FE
Emoji version: 1.0
Unicode version: 8.0
First released: 2015
Unicode group: People & Body
Unicode subgroup: hands
Skin tone: medium-dark
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

celebration · gesture · hand · hands · hooray · medium-dark skin tone · praise · raised · raising

How it looks

Raising Hands: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent 3D — Fluent 3D

Raising Hands: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent Color — Fluent Color

Raising Hands: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent Flat — Fluent Flat

Your device

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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

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Questions people ask

What does the 🙌🏾 raising hands: medium-dark skin tone emoji mean?: 🙌🏾 is the medium-dark skin tone version of 🙌 Raising Hands. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them. 🙌 is raising hands. It means celebration, “hooray” or praise.
What is the Unicode codepoint for 🙌🏾?: U+1F64C U+1F3FE.
When was the 🙌🏾 raising hands: medium-dark skin tone emoji released?: It was added in Emoji 1.0, published in 2015, alongside Unicode 8.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
How do I type 🙌🏾 on my phone or computer?: On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “raising hands”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🙌🏾 from this page with one click.