Palm up hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A medium-dark skin tone hand with the palm facing upward, fingers slightly curled as if catching an object or inviting someone to come closer. It depicts the physical gesture of offering something or gesturing for a person to approach.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to convey an invitation, a request for someone to speak, or the act of offering a hand in support. It is often paired with emojis like ✨ to represent something being offered or 🤲 to emphasize the gesture of receiving.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0, this gesture reflects the ongoing effort to expand hand signals to include more nuanced human interactions. It fills a specific gap for non-verbal communication that text alone often misses.

Details

Glyph

🫴🏾

Unicode

U+1FAF4 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf4_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF4;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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