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🫷Leftwards Pushing Hand Emoji

Tagged block, five and halt, 🫷 leftwards pushing hand sits in Unicode's Fingers Open group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 15.0 (2022) at U+1FAF7.

What 🫷 leftwards pushing hand means

Greetings, stopping someone, and offering something. 👋 opens and closes conversations; ✋ can mean stop, high five, or raising a hand to speak. 🖖 is the Vulcan salute from Star Trek, which Unicode formally names 'raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers'. The directional 🫱 and 🫲 arrived in 2021 so handshakes could mix two skin tones.

Unicode tags this one block, five and halt and files it under People & Body → Fingers Open.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1FAF7`
HTML hex	`🫷`
HTML decimal	`🫷`
CSS	`\1FAF7`
JavaScript	`\u{1FAF7}`
Python	`\U0001FAF7`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDEF7`
Rust	`\u{1faf7}`
Swift	`\u{1FAF7}`
PHP	`\u{1FAF7}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%AB%B7`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F AB B7`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DEF7`
Base64	`8J+rtw==`
Decimal	`129783`
Introduced	Emoji 15.0 (2022)

Skin-tone variants

The 🫷 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.

Keywords

block
five
halt
hand
high
hold
leftward
leftwards
pause
push
pushing
refuse
slap
stop
wait

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How to type 🫷

Windows — press Win + . and search “leftwards pushing hand”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “block”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1faf7 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🫷.

How 🫷 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🫷Apple
🫷Segoe
🫷Noto
🫷System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🫷 leftwards pushing hand emoji mean?+

🫷 is the leftwards pushing hand emoji, tagged block, five and halt. Greetings, stopping someone, and offering something. 👋 opens and closes conversations; ✋ can mean stop, high five, or raising a hand to speak. 🖖 is the Vulcan salute from Star Trek, which Unicode formally names 'raised hand with part between middle and ring fingers'. The directional 🫱 and 🫲 arrived in 2021 so handshakes could mix two skin tones.

What is the Unicode code for 🫷?+

leftwards pushing hand is U+1FAF7. In HTML that is 🫷, in CSS \1FAF7, and in JavaScript \u{1FAF7}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🫷 emoji added?+

leftwards pushing hand got its emoji presentation in Emoji 15.0 (2022). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 15.0 (2022)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫷 leftwards pushing hand.