Palm Up Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Palm Up Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji mean?
The flip side of the palm-down hand emoji, this depicts a medium-dark skin-tone hand in profile with the palm facing up—as if reaching out or ready to catch something. In many parts of Europe it’s commonly used to beckon someone over, but it can also express a request or demand.
This emoji depicts a hand with the palm facing up. This version uses a dark skin tone and typically appears as a brown hand in messaging apps.
The meaning depends on context. Most often, people use this hand to show that they expect help, a gift, or an item from the person they're talking to. It can also indicate an offer of something, for example: "Let's talk", "Hold my keys."
Unicode Name
- 🫴🏾 Palm Up Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Palm Up Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🫴🏾 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1FAF4 U+1F3FE
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%AB%B4%F0%9F%8F%BE |
| Punycode | xn--pn8hl5i |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | f0 9f ab b4 f0 9f 8f be |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \ud83e\udef4\ud83c\udffe |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001faf4\u0001f3fe |
| CSS | \01FAF4 \01F3FE |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1FAF4}\u{1F3FE} |
| Perl | \x{1FAF4}\x{1F3FE} |
| HTML hex | 🫴🏾 |
| HTML dec | 🫴🏾 |
Tags: beckon, catch, come, medium-dark skin tone, offer, palm up hand, hand, hold, know, lift, me, palm, tell
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Open hands & waving