🤚️ Raised back of hand emoji

The raised back of hand emoji means stop, pause, wait, or showing the back of the hand. It can feel firmer or more dismissive than an open palm because the viewer sees the back side.

Use 🤚 when you want to signal halt, hold on, or no thanks. For a clearer front-facing stop hand, compare ✋ Raised hand.

Could also be called backhand, stop hand, wait hand or raised backhand emoji.

Other meanings

Stop, wait, halt, back of hand, pause, no thanks

Example Usage

Wait, I have one more question 🤚

Variants

Related emoji

Hand gestures emojis

• 👋️ Waving hand
• 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed
• ✋️ Raised hand
• 🖖️ Vulcan salute

Visual description

On iOS, this emoji is a yellow hand held upright with the back of the hand facing the viewer. At small sizes, the palm lines are not visible, which separates it from raised hand.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.