Raised hand emoji meaning

The raised hand emoji is a yellow, hand-shaped symbol with a raised arm, resembling a person raising their hand. It is often used to represent a gesture of greeting or acknowledgement, or to indicate that someone is seeking attention or asking a question. It can also be used to show that something is being agreed upon or accepted.

The raised hand emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026L2/07257