Hamsa is a hand-shaped protective amulet found in Middle Eastern and North African cultures, including Jewish and Muslim traditions. 🪬 Hamsa is an emoji from the Objects category. Its Unicode code point is U+1FAAC and it was released in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🪬 Hamsa mean?
Hamsa is a hand-shaped protective amulet found in Middle Eastern and North African cultures, including Jewish and Muslim traditions. It symbolises protection and good fortune.
The 🪬 Hamsa emoji belongs to the other objects group of the Objects category. You will see it in chats and captions related to amulet, fatima, fortune, guide and hand. Hamsa has been available since Emoji 14.0 (2021), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :hamsa: to insert it.
Hamsa emoji codes
| Emoji | 🪬 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1FAAC |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🪬 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🪬 |
| CSS | \1FAAC |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAAC} |
| Python | \U0001FAAC |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AA%AC |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AA AC |
| Shortcode | :hamsa: |
How to type 🪬 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “hamsa”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “hamsa”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “hamsa”.
- HTML: write
🪬in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Hamsa keywords
- amulet
- fatima
- fortune
- guide
- hand
- mary
- miriam
- palm
- protect
- protection
Frequently asked questions
What does 🪬 mean?
Hamsa is a hand-shaped protective amulet found in Middle Eastern and North African cultures, including Jewish and Muslim traditions. It symbolises protection and good fortune.
How do I copy and paste the Hamsa emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🪬 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🪬 Hamsa added to Unicode?
Hamsa was released as part of Emoji 14.0 in 2021.
Related Other Objects emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.