Leftwards hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A palm-side view of a human hand with a medium-dark skin tone, positioned to face toward the left. The fingers are held together in a relaxed, open gesture as if reaching out to touch or greet someone.

Usage Context

Used to denote direction, indicate a side-by-side connection, or signify the act of offering a handshake. It is frequently combined with the 🫱🏾 rightwards hand to visually simulate a completed handshake or a bridge between two people in a chat.

History

This hand gesture was added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0. It was designed to provide more granular, directional body language options that were previously missing from the standard hand sign library.

Details

Glyph

🫲🏾

Unicode

U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf2_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF2;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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