The open hands emoji is 👐, U+1F450, from Emoji 0.6. Unicode names it Open hands; its character name is OPEN HANDS SIGN. It stands between 🫶 Heart hands and 🤲 Palms up together in Unicode’s list of two-hand emoji.
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Emoji open hands: hug, jazz and swerve
CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, gives 👐 six: hand, hands, hug, jazz, open and swerve. Hug it shares with 🤗 and 🫂 People hugging, jazz with the trombone alone, swerve with nothing. By Wikipedia, jazz hands are a performer’s hands held out with palms toward the audience and fingers splayed.
Not raising hands, not palms up
🙌 Raising hands is filed under hooray and praise. 🤲 Palms up together, from Emoji 5.0, is filed under dua and prayer, and Unicode notes it is used for prayer in some cultures. Neither is filed under hug or jazz. 🤗 is the only other emoji with open hands in its name: Smiling face with open hands.
Questions and answers
What does the open hands emoji mean?
Emojipedia describes it as two open hands, representing openness, and CLDR’s words point two ways: arms out for a hug, or jazz hands. The combos Hug on the way and Jazz hands are one of each.
Is there an open hand emoji with one hand?
Eleven, in a part of Unicode’s list named hand-fingers-open. The plainest are 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed, which the names list glosses as halt, and ✋ Raised hand, glossed as paper in Rock, Paper, Scissors. 🫴 Palm up hand is filed under offer and catch.
Which skin tones does the open hands emoji come in?
Five, light to dark. Each is the emoji followed by one tone modifier, U+1F3FB for the lightest through U+1F3FF for the darkest, so both hands take the same tone. Unicode’s list files the five under Emoji 1.0.
How do you type jazz hands?
Wikipedia’s list of emoticons has none. Here a small w stands for a hand with the fingers spread: w(^o^)w. Stars outside it, *w(^o^)w*, add the sparkle, and tildes, ~w(^o^)w~, shake the hands.
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Two-hand emoji 8
👏Clapping handsU+1F44F. First of the seven in Unicode’s hands list. Filed under clap and applause. Emoji 0.6.
🙏Folded handsU+1F64F. Last of the seven in Unicode’s hands list. Filed under please, thanks and pray. Emoji 0.6.
🤝HandshakeU+1F91D. Two hands, two people. Filed under agreement and deal. Emoji 3.0.
🫶Heart handsU+1FAF6. The emoji before Open hands in Unicode’s list: two hands shaping a heart. Filed under love. Emoji 14.0.
👐Open handsU+1F450. The open hands emoji. Its Unicode character name is OPEN HANDS SIGN. Filed under hug, jazz, open and swerve. Emoji 0.6.
🤲Palms up togetherU+1F932. The emoji after Open hands in Unicode’s list: two cupped palms. Filed under dua and prayer, not under open. Emoji 5.0.
🙌Raising handsU+1F64C. Both hands in the air. Filed under hooray and praise. Emoji 0.6.
🤗Smiling face with open handsU+1F917. The only other emoji with open hands in its name. Its Unicode character name is HUGGING FACE. Filed under hug. Emoji 1.0.
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🖐️Hand with fingers splayedU+1F590 U+FE0F. One open hand, fingers apart. Unicode’s names list glosses it halt. Filed under splayed and stop. Emoji 0.7.
🫲Leftwards handU+1FAF2. An open hand held out to the left. Filed under reach and shake. Emoji 14.0.
🫷Leftwards pushing handU+1FAF7. An open palm pushing left. Filed under stop, wait and high five. Emoji 15.0.
🫳Palm down handU+1FAF3. An open hand, palm to the floor. Filed under drop and dismiss. Emoji 14.0.
🫴Palm up handU+1FAF4. An open hand, palm to the sky. Filed under offer, catch and come. Emoji 14.0.
🤚Raised back of handU+1F91A. An open hand seen from the back. Filed under backhand. Emoji 3.0.
✋Raised handU+270B. One open hand, fingers together. Unicode’s names list glosses it paper in Rock, Paper, Scissors. Filed under high, five and stop. Emoji 0.6.
🫱Rightwards handU+1FAF1. An open hand held out to the right. Filed under reach and shake. Emoji 14.0.
🫸Rightwards pushing handU+1FAF8. An open palm pushing right. Filed under stop, wait and high five. Emoji 15.0.
🖖Vulcan saluteU+1F596. An open hand parted between the middle and ring fingers. Filed under salute. Emoji 1.0.
👋Waving handU+1F44B. One open hand, moving. Filed under hello, hi and bye. Emoji 0.6.
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🫂People huggingU+1FAC2. Shares hug with Open hands. Also filed under embrace, hello and goodbye. Emoji 13.0.
TromboneU+1FA8A. The only other emoji filed under jazz. From Emoji 17.0: an empty box where the device has no drawing for it yet. Emoji 17.0.
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\\(^_^)//Two strokes a side, for arms held wide
E(^_^)3A capital E and a 3 for the hands: three fingers out each side
*jazz hands*The words between asterisks: a typed action
w(^_^)wA small w each side of the face: two hands, fingers spread
w(^o^)wJazz hands, mouth open
*w(^o^)w*Jazz hands with a sparkle either side
~w(^o^)w~Jazz hands, shaken
Y(^_^)YA capital Y each side: both arms up, hands open
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👐 come here, youArms out before a hug
👐 free hugsCLDR’s word hug, offered
👐 jazz handsThe caption that goes with CLDR’s word jazz
👐 nothing up my sleevesBoth palms shown
👐 ta-daHands out to show the result
👐 welcome inA greeting at the door
Open hands combos 14
👐🔟All ten fingersOpen hands, then keycap: 10.
🚪👐Doors openDoor, then open hands.
🎭👐Final bowPerforming arts, then open hands.
👐🎉Hands out, ta-daOpen hands, then party popper. Party popper is the one emoji CLDR files under tada.
👐🧸Hug for teddyOpen hands, then teddy bear.
👐🫂Hug on the wayOpen hands, then people hugging. Two of the three emoji filed under hug.
🎷🎺👐Jazz bandSaxophone, then trumpet, then open hands.
👐✨Jazz handsOpen hands, then sparkles. By Wikipedia: palms toward the audience, fingers splayed.
👐📖Like an open bookOpen hands, then open book. Both are filed under open.
🎩👐Magician’s handsTop hat, then open hands. CLDR files the hat under magic.
🎶👐Show choirMusical notes, then open hands. Wikipedia lists show choir among the homes of jazz hands.
📣👐Spirit fingersMegaphone, then open hands. Wikipedia: the cheerleading name for outstretched arms and wiggling fingers.
⚾👐Two-handed catchBaseball, then open hands.
👐🏠With open armsOpen hands, then house. By Wiktionary, with open arms means with enthusiasm, as if embracing.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-16 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points, skin tone forms and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Open hands is U+1F450, Emoji 0.6, in the group People & Body, subgroup hands, fourth of that subgroup’s seven emoji (Clapping hands, Raising hands, Heart hands, Open hands, Palms up together, Handshake, Folded hands). Its five skin tone forms are listed under Emoji 1.0, and it has no text style in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. Its CLDR words are hand, hands, hug, jazz, open and swerve: hug is filed under three emoji (Smiling face with open hands, Open hands, People hugging), jazz under two (Open hands, Trombone), swerve under Open hands alone, and open under seventeen, ten of them faces, then Open hands and six objects (Open book is one), which are not tiles here. The second group is the whole of the subgroup the file calls hand-fingers-open, eleven emoji in the file’s order. Character names (OPEN HANDS SIGN, HUGGING FACE) and the names-list notes (halt; paper in Rock, Paper, Scissors game; used for prayer in some cultures) are from UnicodeData.txt and NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt, https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the names list has no note for Open hands. The character dates from Unicode 6.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). Wikipedia, Jazz hands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_hands): the extension of a performer’s hands with palms toward the audience and fingers splayed, associated with musicals, cheerleading and show choir; in cheerleading, outstretched arms with wiggling fingers are sometimes called spirit fingers. Wiktionary, with open arms (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_open_arms): with enthusiasm, as if embracing (CC BY-SA 4.0). Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons) has no jazz hands. One line is from Emojipedia (https://emojipedia.org/open-hands), restated: it describes the emoji as two open hands, representing openness. The lines and the combos with their names are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the lines, the combo names and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) and the one line from Emojipedia are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.