U+270B "✋" Raised Hand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✋
U+270B "✋" Raised Hand is a pictographic representation of a human hand with the palm facing forward and fingers spread apart, commonly known as the "stop" or "high five" gesture. It was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of the Dingbats block, often used in digital communication to signify a request to halt, a greeting, or a celebratory slap of palms. The symbol is distinct from the "Raised Hand" emoji with skin tone modifiers, which extend its versatility across different platforms and contexts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+270B |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Raised Hand |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ✋ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ✋ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x270B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000270B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u270b |