raised hand ✋

The raised hand emoji shows a human hand with all fingers extended but close together and the palm facing the user. The default color of this emoji is yellow, but other color variations are also available. This emoji is often used when the sender wants to ask somebody to stop a specific action or conversation. It could also be used to ask for a high-five. In the context of online classes, students often send this emoji to ask for permission to recite in class. This references how students would raise their hand in face-to-face classes.

✋ Raised Hand is a fully-qualified emoji as part of Unicode 6.0 which was introduced in 2010.

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