Leftwards hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A palm-side view of a human hand facing left, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. The fingers are held together in a relaxed, flat position, clearly showing the palm and the underside of the thumb.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to represent the act of offering a handshake, reaching out to someone, or stopping a conversation. It is often paired with the š«±š¼ to simulate a two-handed gesture like a handshake, or used alongside the š emoji to indicate a 'halt' signal in a text-based argument.
History
The leftwards hand was added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0. It was created to fill a gap in the emoji library, as previous hand gestures were often limited to back-of-hand views or specific directional pointing, failing to capture the side-profile motion of reaching or greeting.
Details
Glyph
š«²š¼
Unicode
U+1FAF2 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf2_1f3fc:
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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