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🫱Rightwards Hand Emoji
Tagged hand, handshake and hold, 🫱 rightwards hand sits in Unicode's Fingers Open group inside People & Body. It was introduced in Emoji 14.0 (2021) at U+1FAF1.
What 🫱 rightwards 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 hand, handshake and hold 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+1FAF1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🫱 | |
| HTML decimal | 🫱 | |
| CSS | \1FAF1 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAF1} | |
| Python | \U0001FAF1 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDEF1 | |
| Rust | \u{1faf1} | |
| Swift | \u{1FAF1} | |
| PHP | \u{1FAF1} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AB%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB B1 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DEF1 | |
| Base64 | 8J+rsQ== | |
| Decimal | 129777 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 14.0 (2021) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🫱 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🫱
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “rightwards hand”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “hand”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1faf1and 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 🫱 rightwards hand emoji mean?+
🫱 is the rightwards hand emoji, tagged hand, handshake and hold. 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 🫱?+
rightwards hand is U+1FAF1. In HTML that is 🫱, in CSS \1FAF1, and in JavaScript \u{1FAF1}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🫱 emoji added?+
rightwards 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from Fingers Open in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 14.0 (2021)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫱 rightwards hand.