Palm down hand Emoji

People

A human hand held with the palm facing directly downward. The fingers are slightly curled, giving the appearance of dropping an object or signaling for someone to lower their volume or activity level.

Usage Context

This gesture is frequently used to represent dropping something, letting go of a topic, or signaling for someone to 'stop' or 'calm down.' It is often used in digital conversations alongside ✋ to emphasize a gesture of rejection or dismissal.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of a series of hand gestures designed to bridge the gap between physical body language and digital text. It fills a specific functional void where users needed to show an action of releasing an item or commanding a halt without using words.

Details

Glyph

🫳

Unicode

U+1FAF3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF3;

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

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