Palm down hand: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned human hand held palm-down, with fingers slightly curled as if releasing an object or gesturing toward the ground. It captures the physical mechanics of dropping something or signaling for someone to lower their volume.

Usage Context

This gesture is frequently used to represent dropping a mic, letting go of a situation, or signaling for someone to quiet down. It pairs well with 👋🏿 to show a departing movement or 🤚🏿 to denote a stop or pause.

History

Added in Unicode 15.0 in 2022, this emoji reflects the expansion of hand gestures to allow for more nuanced non-verbal communication in digital messaging. The inclusion of skin tone modifiers follows the long-standing initiative to better represent human diversity in modern chat interfaces.

Details

Glyph

🫳🏿

Unicode

U+1FAF3 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf3_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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.

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