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 🫱🏼 to simulate a two-handed gesture like a handshake, or used alongside the 🛑 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

🫲🏼

Unicode

U+1FAF2 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf2_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF2;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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