Leftwards hand: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A flat hand depicted in a medium skin tone, facing toward the left side of the screen with fingers held together. The palm is clearly visible, suggesting an open posture or a reaching gesture.

Usage Context

Used to represent reaching out, offering a handshake, or directing attention toward the left. It is frequently employed in digital conversations to signify a 'high five' or to indicate that the user is handing something over to the recipient. It pairs well with 🫱🏽 when representing a handshake or a physical exchange.

History

This gesture was added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of the expansion to include more specific directional hand signals. Its design draws from the broader movement to provide inclusive, skin-tone-modified hand signs that were previously limited to standard yellow representations in early messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🫲🏽

Unicode

U+1FAF2 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf2_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF2;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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