🫱 "rightwards hand" emoji (copy and paste)
rightwards hand
An open right hand facing right, showing the back of the hand with the thumb on top and the pinky on the bottom.
Meaning of the rightwards hand Emoji
This emoji depicts an open right hand facing right, displaying the back of the hand with the thumb positioned at the top and the pinky at the bottom. It was developed alongside the leftwards hand emoji to enable the creation of ZWJ sequences that illustrate a handshake with two different skin tone modifiers applied, one to each hand. Rightwards Hand was approved as part of Unicode 14.0 in 2021 and added to Emoji 14.0 in 2021.
Usage Examples
- Using the rightwards hand to indicate direction.
- Depicting a handshake with varied skin tones using rightwards and leftwards hand emojis.
- Showing a gesture in a conversation.
- Illustrating a rightward movement in a diagram.
- Representing a high-five gesture facing right.
Alternative Names
rightwards hand
Related Word Associations
leftwards hand, handshake, right, hand, gesture
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 🫱 rightwards hand emoji for cross-platform use:
PNG format:
SVG format:
Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1FAF1
- Version:
- Emoji E14.0
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :rightwards_hand: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :rightwards_hand: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :rightwards_hand: |
| HTML Dec | 🫱 |
| HTML Hex | 🫱 |
| CSS | \01FAF1 |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001faf1 |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83E\uDEF1 |
| Perl | \x{1FAF1} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1FAF1} |
| Punycode | xn--429h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%AB%B1 |
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