Leftwards hand emoji 🫲
Emoji 14.0 (2021) · U+1FAF2
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🫲 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🫲 are hand, handshake, hold, left, leftward, leftwards, reach, shake. They show what people use it for.
Search for hand or handshake on your emoji keyboard and 🫲 is among the results.
You will find 🫲 among the open hands (11 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🫳 🫴 🫷 🫸.
Besides the default yellow, 🫲 has 5 skin tones, from 🫲🏻 light to 🫲🏿 dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will 🫲 show on my friend's phone?
It depends on the phone. 🫲 came with Emoji 14.0 in 2021, so systems updated after 2022 have it and older ones may not.
How to type 🫲
Search for leftwards hand in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🫲.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type leftwards hand.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type leftwards hand in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type leftwards hand.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🫲 is one code point (U+1FAF2), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1FAF2 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🫲 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🫲 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FAF2"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAF2} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AB%B2 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB B2 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🫲 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | leftwards hand |
| Português | mão para a esquerda |
| Español | mano hacia la izquierda |
| Italiano | mano rivolta a sinistra |
| Français | main vers la gauche |
| Deutsch | nach links weisende Hand |
| Türkçe | sola bakan el |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tangan menghadap kiri |
| Polski | dłoń skierowana w lewo |
| Русский | рука влево |
| 日本語 | 左に向けた手 |
| 한국어 | 왼쪽으로 향하는 손바닥 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the leftwards hand emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🫲 "leftwards hand" and links it with hand, handshake, hold, left. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the open hands subgroup of people & body.
When was the leftwards hand emoji added?
In Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. Only phones and computers updated since 2022 show it; older ones may show a box.
Can I change the skin tone of 🫲?
Yes. 🫲 has these skin tones: 🫲🏻 🫲🏼 🫲🏽 🫲🏾 🫲🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.