Leftwards hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A palm-side view of a human hand with a medium-dark skin tone, positioned to face toward the left. The fingers are held together in a relaxed, open gesture as if reaching out to touch or greet someone.
Usage Context
Used to denote direction, indicate a side-by-side connection, or signify the act of offering a handshake. It is frequently combined with the 🫱🏾 rightwards hand to visually simulate a completed handshake or a bridge between two people in a chat.
History
This hand gesture was added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0. It was designed to provide more granular, directional body language options that were previously missing from the standard hand sign library.
Details
Glyph
🫲🏾
Unicode
U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf2_1f3fe:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-open
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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