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

&#xD83E;&#xDEF1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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