🙌️ Raising hands emoji

The raising hands emoji means celebration, praise, joy, or victory. It shows both hands lifted high, often like someone cheering after good news.

Use 🙌 for wins, answered prayers, gratitude, or shared excitement. It works well with 👏 Clapping hands, 🫶 Heart hands, and ✊ Raised fist when the mood is positive and energized.

Could also be called praise hands, celebration hands, raised hands or victory hands emoji.

Other meanings

celebration, praise, victory, joy, excitement, worship, gratitude

Example Usage

We finally got the approval 🙌

Variants

Related emoji

Hand gestures emojis

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

Respect emojis

• 🫡️ Saluting face
• 👏️ Clapping hands
• 🫶️ Heart hands
• 🤝️ Handshake

Visual description

On iOS, two yellow hands are raised upward side by side with small lines above them to show celebration.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.