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Raising hands

This emoji is usually used as a way to say, “thank God!” or “praise the heavens!” It can also be used more literally, to celebrate a joyous occasion, such as a wedding invitation or when your friend tells you she’s pregnant. Overall, this emoji is quite clearly optimistic no matter which way you use it.

Keywords: celebration, gesture, hand, hooray, raised, raising hands
Codepoints: 1F64C
Introduced: October, 2010 in Unicode version 6.0.0 (Emoji version 0.6)
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