🫲 "leftwards hand" emoji (copy and paste)
leftwards hand
An open left hand facing left, showing the back of the hand with the thumb on top and the pinky on the bottom.
Meaning of the leftwards hand Emoji
This emoji depicts an open left hand facing left, displaying the back of the hand with the thumb positioned at the top and the pinky at the bottom. It was developed alongside the rightwards hand emoji to enable the creation of ZWJ sequences that illustrate a handshake with two different skin tone modifiers applied, one to each hand. Leftwards Hand was approved as part of Unicode 14.0 in 2021 and added to Emoji 14.0 in 2021.
Usage Examples
- Using the leftwards hand to indicate direction.
- Depicting a handshake with varied skin tones using leftwards and rightwards hand emojis.
- Showing a gesture in a conversation.
- Illustrating a leftward movement in a diagram.
- Representing a high-five gesture facing left.
Alternative Names
leftwards hand
Related Word Associations
rightwards hand, handshake, left, hand, gesture
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 🫲 leftwards hand emoji for cross-platform use:
PNG format:
SVG format:
Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1FAF2
- Version:
- Emoji E14.0
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :leftwards_hand: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :leftwards_hand: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :leftwards_hand: |
| HTML Dec | 🫲 |
| HTML Hex | 🫲 |
| CSS | \01FAF2 |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001faf2 |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83E\uDEF2 |
| Perl | \x{1FAF2} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1FAF2} |
| Punycode | xn--529h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%AB%B2 |
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