Rightwards hand: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A flat, open hand extended to the right, rendered with a dark skin tone. The fingers are pressed together and the palm faces toward the left, mimicking a gesture of reaching out, offering a greeting, or indicating a direction.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent a handshake, a high-five, or the act of handing something over to another person. It is often combined with other directional hand emojis like 🫲🏿 to simulate a full handshake or a collaborative action between two people.

History

The rightwards hand was added to the Unicode standard in 2022. It belongs to a set of directional hand gestures that were created to add more range to digital communication, allowing users to move beyond the standard palm-forward ✋ or finger-pointing 👉 options.

Details

Glyph

🫱🏿

Unicode

U+1FAF1 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf1_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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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