Palm down hand: light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand held palm-side down, featuring a light skin tone. The fingers are slightly curved as if the hand is in the middle of releasing an object, offering something, or motioning for someone to calm down.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent dropping something, showing off a product, or performing the 'shoo' gesture to dismiss an idea. It pairs well with 🫴🏻 when you want to show the transition between holding and releasing, or with 👋🏻 to emphasize a specific hand movement.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0, this gesture was included to bridge the gap in digital communication for complex physical hand signals that were previously difficult to convey with static, upright hand icons.

Details

Glyph

🫳🏻

Unicode

U+1FAF3 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf3_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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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