👐Open Hands Emoji
Generally, 👐 means you’re offering a hug or embrace, or just wanting to seem friendly and approachable. It's a simple way to show you’re open and welcoming.
The 👐 emoji shows two hands open, palms up.
- Unicode
- U+1F450
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :open_hands:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👐 Open Hands emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as jazz hands emoji.
Open Hands emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the open hands has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Open Hands emoji skin tones
👐 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Open Hands emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :open_hands:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F450.
How to type the 👐 Open Hands emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Open Hands emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the open hands as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Open Hands emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around open hands for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👐, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👐 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 👐 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the open hands lands changes how it is taken.
👐 vs 👏 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Open Hands
Code: U+1F450 · added 2010
Shortcode: :open_hands:
Generally, 👐 means you’re offering a hug or embrace, or just wanting to seem friendly and approachable.
Unicode name: Clapping Hands
Code: U+1F44F · added 2010
Shortcode: :clap:
Generally, it means “well done!
Where the 👐 Open Hands emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F450 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👐 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E695, KDDI au EAD6, SoftBank E422.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Open Hands was approved as U+1F450 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👐 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.