Rightwards pushing hand: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A flat, palm-forward human hand reaching toward the right, rendered in a medium skin tone. It shows the hand held vertically, as if bracing against an incoming force or signaling someone to stay back.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to for telling someone to stop, wait, or back off. It works as a non-verbal command in chat, signaling that you need a moment or that a boundary is being set. It is frequently used alongside the stop sign 🛑 or the raised back of hand ✋🏽 to emphasize a firm refusal or a request for space.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2022 as part of Emoji 15.0, this set of directional hands was developed to fill a gap in digital sign language and gesture-based communication, allowing users to specify the directionality of hand movements for the first time.

Details

Glyph

🫸🏽

Unicode

U+1FAF8 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1faf8_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDEF8;&#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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