🫲 Leftwards Hand is an emoji from the People & Body category. Its Unicode code point is U+1FAF2 and it was released in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🫲 Leftwards Hand mean?
🫲 is the Leftwards Hand emoji, listed under People & Body → Fingers Open in the Unicode emoji standard. You will see it in chats and captions related to hand, handshake, hold, left and leftward. It was approved as part of Emoji 14.0 in 2021 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. It supports five skin tones: 🫲🏻 🫲🏼 🫲🏽 🫲🏾 🫲🏿. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :leftwards_hand: to insert it.
Leftwards Hand skin tones & variations
Click to copy a variation:
Leftwards Hand emoji codes
| Emoji | 🫲 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1FAF2 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🫲 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🫲 |
| CSS | \1FAF2 |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAF2} |
| Python | \U0001FAF2 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%B2 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB B2 |
| Shortcode | :leftwards_hand: |
How to type 🫲 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “leftwards hand”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “leftwards hand”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “hand”.
- HTML: write
🫲in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Leftwards Hand keywords
- hand
- handshake
- hold
- left
- leftward
- leftwards
- reach
- shake
Frequently asked questions
What does 🫲 mean?
🫲 is the Leftwards Hand emoji, listed under People & Body → Fingers Open in the Unicode emoji standard. You will see it in chats and captions related to hand, handshake, hold, left and leftward. It was approved as part of Emoji 14.0 in 2021 and works on virtually every modern phone and computer. It supports five skin tones: 🫲🏻 🫲🏼 🫲🏽 🫲🏾 🫲🏿. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :leftwards_hand: to insert it.
How do I copy and paste the Leftwards Hand 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 🫲 Leftwards Hand added to Unicode?
Leftwards Hand was released as part of Emoji 14.0 in 2021.
Does 🫲 come in different skin tones?
Yes. Leftwards Hand supports five skin-tone modifiers based on the Fitzpatrick scale: 🫲🏻 🫲🏼 🫲🏽 🫲🏾 🫲🏿. Pick one from the list above to copy it.
Related Fingers Open emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.