👐️ Open hands emoji

The open hands emoji means openness, welcome, honesty, or offering help. The two open palms can feel like a gentle hug, a gift, or a transparent gesture.

Use 👐 when inviting someone in, offering support, or showing you have nothing to hide. It relates to 🤲 Palms up together for receiving or asking and 🤝 Handshake for cooperative intent.

Could also be called open palms, open hands gesture, welcome hands or honest hands emoji.

Other meanings

open palms, welcome, honesty, offering, support, hug, transparency

Example Usage

I can help with the setup 👐

Variants

Related emoji

Hand gestures emojis

• 👋️ Waving hand
• 🤚️ Raised back of hand
• 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed
• ✋️ Raised hand

Visual description

On iOS, two yellow open hands sit side by side with palms facing forward and fingers spread.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.