Palm down hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand positioned with the palm facing toward the ground, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. The fingers are slightly curled as if releasing an object, reaching for something on a surface, or waving someone away.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent the physical act of dropping an object, shooing away a pest, or asking someone to 'hold on' or wait. It serves as a visual shorthand for clearing a space or dismissing a topic during a conversation. It is often used alongside the 👋 for a more casual wave or the 🤏 when describing picking up something small.

History

This character was added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of the Emoji 15.0 update. It was introduced to bridge the gap in human expression, specifically to capture gestures that involve downward-facing palm motions which were previously difficult to express with existing hand emojis.

Details

Glyph

🫳🏼

Unicode

U+1FAF3 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf3_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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