Palm down hand: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand held palm-down with fingers slightly splayed and relaxed, featuring a medium-dark skin tone. The gesture captures the exact moment an object is released or shoved downward toward a surface.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for visual shorthand when describing dropping an object, shooing someone away, or signaling that a conversation is finished. It is frequently used in meme culture to depict the act of 'dropping the mic' or ending a debate, and often appears alongside 🖐️ or 👋 to emphasize a sudden departure or dismissive action.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 14.0, this gesture reflects the ongoing effort to broaden the range of specific physical hand movements in digital communication. It fills a gap for non-verbal cues that were previously difficult to convey without multi-word sentences.

Details

Glyph

🫳🏾

Unicode

U+1FAF3 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf3_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF3;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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