🫲🏻 Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone

Unicode lists 🫲🏻 Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone among the open-hand gestures in the People & Body group. It usually appears in messages about hand, handshake, hold and left. Unicode also files it under leftward, leftwards, light skin tone and reach, which shows how widely it is read.

You can drop 🫲🏻 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. It joined the standard with Emoji 14.0 in 2021, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1FAF2 U+1F3FB.

• 🫲🏻 on its own already flags the topic: hand.
• Fits messages about hand, handshake, hold and left.
• Often seen near 🫳 Palm Down Hand, 🫲 Leftwards Hand and 🫱🏻 Rightwards Hand: Light Skin Tone.

• 🫲🏻🫷 – Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone and Leftwards Pushing Hand
• 🫲🏻🫳 – Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone with Palm Down Hand
• 🫲🏻🫴 – Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone plus Palm up Hand
• 🫲🏻🫱 – Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone and Rightwards Hand
• 🫲🏻🖖 – Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone with Vulcan Salute

Easy to mix up with 🫳 Palm Down Hand, 🫲 Leftwards Hand or 🫱🏻 Rightwards Hand: Light Skin Tone. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.