Rightwards pushing hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A flat, human hand facing right, rendered in a medium-light skin tone. The fingers are pressed together and the palm is open as if creating a barrier or physically shoving an object away.

Usage Context

This emoji is a go-to for signaling a hard stop, requesting personal space, or rejecting an idea. It effectively communicates a 'talk to the hand' sentiment or a literal instruction to pause. It is frequently used alongside the stop sign 🛑 or the raised hand ✋ to emphasize a firm boundary or refusal.

History

Part of the Emoji 15.0 update released in 2022, this design was added to provide more specific directional gestures. While simple hand signs have been a staple of digital communication since the early 2000s, this particular variant reflects the shift toward more granular, descriptive hand movements that mimic real-world body language.

Details

Glyph

🫸🏼

Unicode

U+1FAF8 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf8_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF8;&#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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