Skin Tone Variants
About Raised Hand: Medium-light Skin Tone
Raised Hand: Medium-light Skin Tone is the Unicode character ✋🏼 at codepoint U+270B in the Dingbats block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Raised Hand: Medium-light Skin Tone
To use the Raised Hand: Medium-light Skin Tone symbol (✋🏼) 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 ✋🏼. 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.