Rightwards hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A human hand facing toward the right, rendered in a medium-dark skin tone. The fingers are extended and the palm is positioned to imply movement, receiving, or gesturing toward someone or something on the right side of the screen.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent reaching out, shaking hands, or pointing a person in a specific direction. It is a popular choice for high-fives, welcoming someone into a conversation, or signaling a hand-off in collaborative tasks. It is often used in combination with 🤝 for business deals or 👋 for arrivals.

History

Part of the Unicode 14.0 release in 2021, this emoji was added to address the need for more diverse and directional hand gestures. It follows the expansion of skin tone modifiers, which were first introduced in 2015 to provide better representation across global digital communication platforms.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏾

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#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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