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The word up with an exclamation point after it, shown enclosed in a square. Originally intended to denote leveling up in a game.

Squared Up with Exclamation Mark

A&nbsp;thumbs-up gesture indicating approval.

In certain contexts, the use of the Thumbs Up emoji can be construed as being passive aggressive or sarcastic. Despite this possible use, it&nbsp;remains a popular means of quickly and earnestly expressing approval.

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Thumbs Up Sign

Two open hands, representing openness. Sometimes used as a <a href="/hugging-face/" title="🤗 Hugging Face">hug</a>, or as a display of jazz hands.

Open Hands Sign

Two hands held out together with open palms facing up, in a slightly cupped manner, as if expecting an object to be placed within them.

May also be used to represent an open book in American Sign Language (ASL), or the gesture used by&nbsp;followers&nbsp;of Islam when&nbsp;praying.

Palms Up Together

A single finger pointing upward,&nbsp;which could be used to represent the number one, or to&nbsp;ask a question.

White Up Pointing Index

A vertical&nbsp;line with arrowheads on&nbsp;both ends, pointing up&nbsp;and down.

Up Down Arrow

A newspaper rolled up and bound, as for delivery to a house. Generally positioned at a 45&deg; angle. Commonly used for various content concerning news, media, and journalism&nbsp;as well as personal news.

See also <a href="/newspaper/">📰 Newspaper</a>.

Rolled-Up Newspaper

A white piece of paper, its top right corner curled or dog-eared, with text printed on it, as a business letter or icon for a document on a computer. Commonly used for content concerning various types of documents and writing.

Most platforms indicate text with dark lines. Apple&rsquo;s design features an easter egg, addressed Dear Katie and signed Take care from <a href="https://www.mactrast.com/2017/05/who-exactly-is-john-appleseed/">John Appleseed</a> with the text of its 1997&ndash;2002 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Crazy Ones/</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_different">Think Different</a> ad campaign:

Here&rsquo;s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They&rsquo;re not fond of rules. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can&rsquo;t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-a-2/page-facing-up/">Early designs</a> from au by KDDI show a slanted document, suggesting this emoji may have been originally intended to represent a&nbsp;digital document being sent electronically.

Not to be confused with <a href="/page-with-curl/">📃 Page With Curl</a> or other emojis featuring sheets of paper.

Page Facing Up

Index finger pointing upward, showing the back of the hand while doing so.

White Up Pointing Backhand Index

Two hands raised in the air, celebrating success or another joyous event.

<a href="/au-kddi/type-d-2/raising-hands/">Originally&nbsp;animated</a> to show hands being raised, as might be done along with the the exclamation&nbsp;Banzai!&nbsp;in Japan. Now more commonly only shows the hands in the air.

Person Raising Both Hands in Celebration

Two triangles pointing up. Similar to <a href="/fast-reverse-button/" title="⏪ Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle">rewind</a> icon,&nbsp;rotated 90&deg; clockwise.

Black Up-Pointing Double Triangle

Two people holding hands, most likely due to being in a relationship.

No gender is specified for these two people, meaning they are likely to be shown with a gender inclusive design.

Two hands clapping emoji, which when used multiple times can be used&nbsp;as a round of applause.

Clapping Hands Sign

A small red equilateral triangle, pointing upwards.

Up-Pointing Red Triangle

Two hands placed firmly together, meaning please&nbsp;or&nbsp;thank you&nbsp;in Japanese culture.&nbsp;A common alternative use&nbsp;for this emoji is for prayer, using the same gesture as&nbsp;praying hands. It can also represent&nbsp;a respectful greeting or show of adoration many in Southeast Asian religions and cultures, such as the Hindu namaste or Buddhist a&ntilde;jali mudra.

Rarely used as&nbsp;a&nbsp;high-five, despite often being suggested as one by emoji keyboard search features. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emojiology-folded-hands/">More about this emoji and its possible meanings</a>.

A previous&nbsp;version of this&nbsp;emoji&nbsp;displayed a <a href="/apple/ios-6.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Apple iOS 6.0">yellow burst of light behind the two hands</a>&nbsp;on iOS. Android once&nbsp;showed a blob-character with <a href="/google/android-5.0/folded-hands/" title="🙏 Person With Folded Hands on Google Android 5.0">closed eyes and folded hands</a>.

Person with Folded Hands

A triangle-shaped arrow, pointing up. Styled similarly to the <a href="/reverse-button/" title="◀ Black Left-Pointing Triangle">left</a> and <a href="/play-button/" title="▶ Black Right-Pointing Triangle">right</a> triangles and colored as either gray or blue,&nbsp;but shown in orange on Android.

Previously displayed as red on <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/upwards-button/">Windows</a>.

Up-Pointing Small Red Triangle

A hand in profile with the palm facing up.

Can be used to represent the action of lifting, offering, demanding, or beckoning. May also be used to express a question or lack of knowledge.

The design is a mirror image of <a href="/palm-down-hand/">🫴 Palm Down Hand</a>. The hand position is similar to the one in&nbsp;<a href="/person-tipping-hand/">💁 Person Tipping Hand</a>.

Palm Up Hand

Two men&nbsp;holding hands, most likely due to being in a relationship.

Two Men Holding Hands

Two&nbsp;women&nbsp;holding hands, most likely due to being in a relationship.

Two Women Holding Hands

Two hands forming a heart shape. Used to express love and support.

This emoji currently showns the heart being made through two hands being curved into a C-shape with their thumbs touching. This is stereotypically referred to as the &quot;Millennial Hand Heart&quot;.

Heart Hands

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