U+1F91A "🤚" Raised Back of Hand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🤚
U+1F91A "🤚" Raised Back of Hand is a standardized digital symbol representing a hand with the palm facing away from the viewer and the back of the hand shown, typically with fingers spread apart. This glyph was added to the Unicode Standard as part of Emoji version 2.0 in 2015 and is often used in digital communication to convey a stop, halt, or "talk to the hand" gesture, as well as to emphasize rejection, a high five, or simply the act of showing the back of one's hand. Its design varies slightly across platforms but consistently depicts a human hand raised upward with the knuckles and fingernails visible, making it a versatile and recognizable pictogram for expressing non-verbal cues in text and messaging contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F91A |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Raised Back of Hand |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🤚 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🤚 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD1A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F91A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd1a |