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🫴Palm Up Hand Emoji

Tagged beckon, catch and come, 🫴 palm up hand sits in Unicode's Fingers Open group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 14.0 (2021) at U+1FAF4.

What 🫴 palm up 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 beckon, catch and come 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+1FAF4`
HTML hex	`🫴`
HTML decimal	`🫴`
CSS	`\1FAF4`
JavaScript	`\u{1FAF4}`
Python	`\U0001FAF4`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDEF4`
Rust	`\u{1faf4}`
Swift	`\u{1FAF4}`
PHP	`\u{1FAF4}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%AB%B4`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F AB B4`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DEF4`
Base64	`8J+rtA==`
Decimal	`129780`
Introduced	Emoji 14.0 (2021)

Skin-tone variants

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

Keywords

beckon
catch
come
hand
hold
know
lift
me
offer
palm
tell

Appears in these collections

How to type 🫴

Windows — press Win + . and search “palm up hand”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “beckon”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1faf4 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 🫴 palm up hand emoji mean?+

🫴 is the palm up hand emoji, tagged beckon, catch and come. 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 🫴?+

palm up hand is U+1FAF4. In HTML that is 🫴, in CSS \1FAF4, and in JavaScript \u{1FAF4}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🫴 emoji added?+

palm up hand got its emoji presentation in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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 14.0 (2021)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫴 palm up hand.