Raised back of hand
Emoji 3.0 ยท People & Body ยท :raised_back_of_hand:
Also known as: back, backhand, hand, raised
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Skin tones
Copy as code
What Raised back of hand Means
People reach for ๐ค when they mean back, backhand, hand, raised. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Raised back of hand is one of the people & body emoji, alongside ๐ ๐๏ธ โ ๐ ๐ซฑ and 5 more in the same family. It supports all five skin tone modifiers, so ๐ค can be sent as ๐ค๐ป ๐ค๐ผ ๐ค๐ฝ ๐ค๐พ ๐ค๐ฟ.
History & Platforms
Raised back of hand was added in 2016 as part of Emoji 3.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ค is the single code point U+1F91A, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :raised_back_of_hand:.
How To Use ๐ค
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ค๐๐๏ธ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :raised_back_of_hand: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.