✋ Raised Hand
The ✋ Raised Hand emoji (U+270B) is part of the People category, where it sits in the Hand Gestures group alongside 37 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords stop, high five, and hand, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express stop in a message, caption, or comment, ✋ is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of high five, and hand. Like every emoji, the Raised Hand renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+270B is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the ✋ emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to ✋ in the Hand Gestures group include 👋 Waving Hand, 🤚 Raised Back of Hand, 🖐️ Hand with Fingers Splayed, ✌️ Victory Hand, 🤞 Crossed Fingers, 🫰 Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed, and it is frequently combined with 👋 Waving Hand and 🤚 Raised Back of Hand in messages. The People category contains 158 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.