Palm up hand

What 🫴 means

An open hand with the palm facing up. 🫴 means offering, holding out, or waiting to receive something.

Pair it with an object, like 🫴🌹 or 🫴🍪, to offer it. Alone it can mean "hand it over," "come on," or "well, what is it?" Some use it as a beckon or to show catching something.

Facts

Palm up hand 🫴 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 :palm_up_hand:. People also look for it with words like “beckon”, “catch”, “come”, or “hand”.

Timeline

1. 2021Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 14.0)
2. 2021Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 14.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 14.0