People & Body · Emoji 0.7
🖐️Hand with Fingers Splayed Emoji
Generally, the 🖐️ emoji means “stop” or “wait.” People use it to signal they want you to pause what you’re doing.
The 🖐️ emoji shows five fingers spread open.
- Unicode
- U+1F590 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :raised_
hand_ with_ fingers_ splayed: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🖐️ Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
02 — Platforms
Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the hand with fingers splayed has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji skin tones
🖐️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F590.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🖐️ Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F590 when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the hand with fingers splayed as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 8 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Microsoft
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hand with fingers splayed for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🖐️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the hand with fingers splayed and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🖐️ means in other countries
Usually just “stop” or a high-five, but an open palm thrust toward someone is a real insult in parts of Greece.
A high-five or “halt” signal — there’s no negative reading attached at all.
An open-palm gesture (the moutza) aimed at someone is a serious traditional insult.
Before you send it: Fine as a casual “stop” or high-five; avoid aiming it pointedly at one person in Greek chats.
10 — Apps
What 🖐️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the hand with fingers splayed lands changes how it is taken.
12 — Difference
🖐️ vs 👋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Hand with Fingers Splayed
Code: U+1F590 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:
Generally, the 🖐️ emoji means “stop” or “wait.”
Unicode name: Waving Hand
Code: U+1F44B · added 2010
Shortcode: :wave:
Generally, 👋 means “hello” or “goodbye.”
13 — History
Where the 🖐️ Hand with Fingers Splayed emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the hand with fingers splayed to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F590 U+FE0F 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.
Hand with Fingers Splayed was approved as U+1F590 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🖐️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ