Skin Tone Variants
Raised Hand: Medium-dark Skin Tone is the Unicode character โ๐พ at codepoint U+270B in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard โ or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Raised Hand: Medium-dark Skin Tone
To use the Raised Hand: Medium-dark Skin Tone symbol (โ๐พ) in HTML, insert the
entity ✋🏾 directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\270B';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u270B' evaluates to โ๐พ. In Python source, write '\u270B'.
The character encodes to E2 9C 8B as UTF-8 bytes and 270B as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9995.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.