🙌Raising Hands Emoji
Basically, it means “yay! ” or “great job!
The 🙌 emoji shows two hands raised upward, like you’re cheering.
- Unicode
- U+1F64C
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :raised_hands:
- Skin tones
- Yes
- Popularity
- #56 most used
What does the 🙌 Raising Hands emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
People also look for it as praise hand emoji, praise emoji, praise hands emoji.
Raising Hands emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the raising hands has been drawn in 4 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.
Raising Hands emoji skin tones
🙌 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Raising Hands emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :raised_hands:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F64C.
How to type the 🙌 Raising Hands emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F64C when there is no key at all.
Raising Hands emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the raising 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
Raising Hands emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around raising 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🙌 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F64C, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🙌 vs 👏 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Raising Hands
Code: U+1F64C · added 2010
Shortcode: :raised_hands:
Basically, it means “yay!
Unicode name: Clapping Hands
Code: U+1F44F · added 2010
Shortcode: :clap:
Generally, it means “well done!
Where the 🙌 Raising 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+1F64C 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
KDDI au EB86, SoftBank E427.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Raising Hands was approved as U+1F64C 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.