Leftwards hand
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- Shortcode
:leftwards_hand:- Unicode
U+1FAF2- HTML
🫲- CSS
\1FAF2- JavaScript
"\u{1FAF2}"- URL
%F0%9F%AB%B2
What ๐ซฒ means
A hand reaching to the left, the mirror of ๐ซฑ. It shows reaching for something, taking it, or meeting another hand.
Paired with ๐ซฑ, it forms a handshake in which each side can take its own skin tone. Alone it can mean "give it here" or "hand it over," or a reach toward something in the message.
Facts
Leftwards hand ๐ซฒ is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand fingers open. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :leftwards_hand:. People also look for it with words like โhandโ, โhandshakeโ, โholdโ, or โleftโ.
Timeline
- 2021Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 14.0)
- 2021Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 14.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2021
2022
2024
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2022
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.