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Rightwards hand: dark skin tone

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
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Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-open
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
handrightwardsreachingoffergreetingshakedark skin tonegesturepalm

Twemoji Attribution

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