hamsa

Group: Objects · Subgroup: Other object · Emoji 14

Keywords

amulet
Fatima
fortune
guide
hamsa
hand
Mary
Miriam
fatima
mary
miriam
palm

About this character

hamsa belongs to the Objects group and is encoded at U+1FAAC. It was added in Unicode 14.0.

Shortcode

Chat apps such as Slack, Discord and GitHub accept this shortcode instead of the character itself.

Technical codes

Code point: U+1FAAC
Hex: 1FAAC
Decimal: 129708
HTML: 🪬
CSS: \1FAAC
JavaScript: \u{1FAAC}
Python: \U0001FAAC
UTF-8: F0 9F AA AC

The same character is drawn differently by each operating system and font.

cigarette U+1F6AC Similar
coffin U+26B0 Similar
headstone U+1FAA6 Similar
funeral urn U+26B1 Similar
nazar amulet U+1F9FF Similar
moai U+1F5FF Similar
placard U+1FAA7 Similar
identification card U+1FAAA Similar

Questions

Why does this emoji look different on my phone?

Unicode standardises the meaning of a character, not its drawing. Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung each ship their own artwork, so the same code point changes shape between devices.

Does copying work everywhere?

The character is copied as plain text, so it pastes into any app that accepts text. If the receiving app has no font for it, you will see an empty box instead.