Rightwards hand: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A palm-out hand facing toward the right, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. The fingers are extended and joined, mimicking the physical gesture of reaching out, offering a greeting, or directing someone toward a specific point.
Usage Context
This emoji acts as a versatile directional tool. It is frequently used to gesture toward text, point out an item in a list, or signify a handshake gesture when paired with its counterpart, 🫲🏼. It also serves as a visual way to indicate 'passing' something to another user in a chat.
History
Part of the expansion of directional hand gestures added to Unicode 15.0 in 2022, this icon was introduced to give users more granular control over body language in digital messaging, moving away from the limited options provided by earlier, non-directional hand signs.
Details
Glyph
🫱🏼
Unicode
U+1FAF1 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1faf1_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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