What Does 🙌 Mean?
Raising Hands is the emoji of unbridled celebration and praise. Both hands raised high conveys victory, joy, gratitude to a higher power, or just pure excitement at good news. It's the "YESSS!" emoji.
Cultural context: Used in religious contexts for praise and worship. In secular contexts it's celebration and excitement. Common in sports victories and personal achievements.
When to Use 🙌
✓ Good for
- Celebrating great news
- Expressing praise or worship
- Reacting to good news or wins
- Pure excitement and joy
✗ Avoid when
- Somber contexts
Example Usage
How 🙌 Looks on Different Platforms
Skin tone modifiers available. Consistent raised hands across platforms.
* Emoji appearance varies by platform and OS version. Shown above: how the emoji character renders in your browser per platform.
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About the Raising Hands Emoji
The Raising Hands emoji (🙌) is one of the most recognised symbols in digital communication. Raising Hands is the emoji of unbridled celebration and praise. Both hands raised high conveys victory, joy, gratitude to a higher power, or just pure excitement at good news. It's the "YESSS!" emoji.
First introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010), it belongs to the People & Body category
of the Unicode Emoji standard. Its Unicode codepoint is U+1F64C
and its Slack/Discord shortcode is :raised_hands:.
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