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U+270B · RAISED HAND

Raised Hand

  • CodepointU+270B
  • NameRAISED HAND
  • Emoji nameraised hand
  • Decimal9995
  • BlockDingbats (U+2700–U+27BF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version6.0 (2010)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+270B (✋) is RAISED HAND, a symbol in the Dingbats block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 6.0 (2010).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “raised hand”, in the People & Body group, subgroup hand-fingers-open. It displays as a colour emoji by default. It accepts skin-tone modifiers (U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF).

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type ✋

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 9C 8B3 bytes
UTF-16270B1 code unit
UTF-320000270B4 bytes
HTML decimal✋
HTML hex✋
CSS\270Bin content: "…"
JavaScript\u270B
JSON\u270B
Python\u270B
Python\N{RAISED HAND}by name
Java / C#\u270B
C / C++\u270Buniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{270B}
Go\u270B
Ruby\u270B
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9995)
URL-encoded%E2%9C%8Bpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Dingbats

All in block →
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