leftwards hand

Group: People & body · Subgroup: Hand fingers open · Emoji 14

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About this character

leftwards hand belongs to the People & body group and is encoded at U+1FAF2. 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+1FAF2
Hex: 1FAF2
Decimal: 129778
HTML: 🫲
CSS: \1FAF2
JavaScript: \u{1FAF2}
Python: \U0001FAF2
UTF-8: F0 9F AB B2

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

Skin tones / Variants

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.