Leftwards pushing hand emoji 🫷
Emoji 15.0 (2022) · U+1FAF7
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🫷 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Leftwards pushing hand 🫷 is tagged with these keywords: block, five, halt, hand, high, hold, leftward, leftwards, pause, push.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing block or five in the emoji search brings up 🫷.
Leftwards pushing hand 🫷 is one of 11 emoji in the open hands subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🫸 👋 🤚 🖐️.
🫷 comes in 5 skin tones, from 🫷🏻 to 🫷🏿, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🫷 show on my friend's phone?
🫷 is fairly new: Emoji 15.0 (2022). Phones and computers updated since 2023 usually show it; older ones may show an empty box.
How to type 🫷
Any emoji picker finds 🫷 when you search for leftwards pushing hand.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type leftwards pushing hand.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type leftwards pushing hand in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type leftwards pushing hand.
Codes for developers
Leftwards pushing hand 🫷 is a single code point, U+1FAF7. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1FAF7 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🫷 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🫷 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FAF7"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAF7} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AB%B7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB B7 |
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 pushing hand |
| Português | mão empurrando para a esquerda |
| Español | mano empujando hacia la izquierda |
| Italiano | mano che spinge a sinistra |
| Français | main qui pousse vers la gauche |
| Deutsch | nach links schiebende Hand |
| Türkçe | sola iten el |
| Bahasa Indonesia | tangan mendorong ke kiri |
| Polski | dłoń pchająca w lewo |
| Русский | рука ладонью влево |
| 日本語 | 左向きに押している手 |
| 한국어 | 왼쪽으로 밀치는 손 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the leftwards pushing hand emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🫷 "leftwards pushing hand" and links it with block, five, halt, hand. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the open hands subgroup of people & body.
When was the leftwards pushing hand emoji added?
In Emoji 15.0, released in 2022. Only phones and computers updated since 2023 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.