🤚Raised Back of Hand Emoji
Generally, 🤚 means “stop” or “wait. ” It’s a polite way to ask someone to hold on or to interrupt them gently.
The 🤚 emoji shows a hand raised with the back of the hand facing up.
- Unicode
- U+1F91A
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :raised_back_of_hand:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🤚 Raised Back of Hand emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 4.
Raised Back of Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F91A. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Raised Back of Hand emoji skin tones
🤚 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Raised Back of Hand emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :raised_back_of_hand:.
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+1F91A.
How to type the 🤚 Raised Back of Hand emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Raised Back of Hand emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the raised back of hand 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
Raised Back of Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around raised back of hand 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 in other countries
Reads as “stop” or a high-five gesture, with little variation across regions or platforms.
Used to say “wait,” “stop,” or “high five” depending on the surrounding message.
Rare in professional writing — feels informal rather than offensive.
Before you send it: Safe to use in most contexts; for a formal tone, spell out the word “stop” or “wait” instead.
What 🤚 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the raised back of hand 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: Raised Back of Hand
Code: U+1F91A · added 2016
Shortcode: :raised_back_of_hand:
Generally, 🤚 means “stop” or “wait.
Unicode name: Waving Hand
Code: U+1F44B · added 2010
Shortcode: :wave:
Generally, 👋 means “hello” or “goodbye.
Where the 🤚 Raised Back of Hand emoji came from
It arrived with the 3.0 release of the standard, which dates the raised back of hand to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F91A 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.
Raised Back of Hand was approved as U+1F91A and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.