Keyword
hands emoji
31 emoji are annotated with “hands” in Unicode’s CLDR data.
- smiling face with open handssmiling face with open hands
- vulcan salutevulcan salute
- vulcan salute: light skin tonevulcan salute: light skin tone
- vulcan salute: medium-light skin tonevulcan salute: medium-light skin tone
- vulcan salute: medium skin tonevulcan salute: medium skin tone
- vulcan salute: medium-dark skin tonevulcan salute: medium-dark skin tone
- vulcan salute: dark skin tonevulcan salute: dark skin tone
- raising handsraising hands
- raising hands: light skin toneraising hands: light skin tone
- raising hands: medium-light skin toneraising hands: medium-light skin tone
- raising hands: medium skin toneraising hands: medium skin tone
- raising hands: medium-dark skin toneraising hands: medium-dark skin tone
- raising hands: dark skin toneraising hands: dark skin tone
- heart handsheart hands
- heart hands: light skin toneheart hands: light skin tone
- heart hands: medium-light skin toneheart hands: medium-light skin tone
- heart hands: medium skin toneheart hands: medium skin tone
- heart hands: medium-dark skin toneheart hands: medium-dark skin tone
- heart hands: dark skin toneheart hands: dark skin tone
- open handsopen hands
- open hands: light skin toneopen hands: light skin tone
- open hands: medium-light skin toneopen hands: medium-light skin tone
- open hands: medium skin toneopen hands: medium skin tone
- open hands: medium-dark skin toneopen hands: medium-dark skin tone
- open hands: dark skin toneopen hands: dark skin tone
- palms up togetherpalms up together
- palms up together: light skin tonepalms up together: light skin tone
- palms up together: medium-light skin tonepalms up together: medium-light skin tone
- palms up together: medium skin tonepalms up together: medium skin tone
- palms up together: medium-dark skin tonepalms up together: medium-dark skin tone
- palms up together: dark skin tonepalms up together: dark skin tone
Frequently asked questions
- How many emoji mean hands?
- 31 emoji are annotated with “hands”.
- Which categories does hands span?
- Emoji annotated “hands” appear in Smileys & Emotion and People & Body. A keyword is the only grouping here that crosses categories — the Unicode taxonomy files each character in exactly one.
- Which emoji are tagged hands?
- They include 🤗 smiling face with open hands, 🖖 vulcan salute, 🖖🏻 vulcan salute: light skin tone and 🖖🏼 vulcan salute: medium-light skin tone. The full set is listed above.
- Where do these keywords come from?
- Unicode’s CLDR annotation data, which is the same source that lets an emoji keyboard find a character by name. They are not tags anyone here invented.