Palm up hand: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A human hand with a medium skin tone, held palm-up with the fingers slightly curled as if catching an object or beckoning someone closer. The visual focus is on the open, receptive nature of the gesture.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to represent the act of offering something to someone, asking for something to be given, or signaling for a person to approach. It is often paired with 🤲 to convey gratitude or receiving, or used alongside ✨ to imply something is being presented or revealed.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0, this gesture reflects the ongoing effort to digitize common non-verbal cues that vary across global cultures. It serves as a more specific alternative to the generic open hand, pinpointing the exact physical orientation required for the 'come here' or 'catch' motions.

Details

Glyph

🫴🏽

Unicode

U+1FAF4 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf4_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF4;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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

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