🫲🏾 Leftwards Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
Copy and paste this emoji: 🫲🏾
Emoji Meaning
This is the left-pointing hand emoji — the mirror image of the rightwards hand emoji. It shows an open left hand in a medium-dark skin tone, oriented to the left with the pinky at the bottom and the thumb at the top.
An emoji showing a human right hand with the palm facing outward toward the viewer; the fingers are straight and point to the left. It’s the same gesture as a light hand to the left.
Users often pick a darker skin tone to match their own complexion. This emoji is commonly used to convey a readiness to help — to show willingness to help the person you’re talking to.
Unicode Name
- 🫲🏾 Leftwards Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
🫲🏾 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1FAF2 U+1F3FE
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%AB%B2%F0%9F%8F%BE |
| Punycode | xn--pn8hh5i |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | f0 9f ab b2 f0 9f 8f be |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \ud83e\udef2\ud83c\udffe |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001faf2\u0001f3fe |
| CSS | \01FAF2 \01F3FE |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1FAF2}\u{1F3FE} |
| Perl | \x{1FAF2}\x{1F3FE} |
| HTML hex | 🫲🏾 |
| HTML dec | 🫲🏾 |
Tags: hand, left, leftward, leftwards hand, medium-dark skin tone
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Open hands & waving