Leftwards Pushing Hand

🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand is one of the open-hand gestures in Unicode's People & Body group. Typical contexts are block, five, halt and hand. Unicode also files it under high, hold, leftward and leftwards, which shows how widely it is read.

🫷 works in messages, comments, captions and profile names. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. Added in 2022 with Emoji 15.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. On older phones and operating systems it may still show as an empty box. Its code point is U+1FAF7. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• A single 🫷 is often enough to set the tone.
• Fits messages about block, five, halt and hand.
• Often seen near 🫴 Palm up Hand, 🫴🏻 Palm up Hand: Light Skin Tone and 🫷🏻 Leftwards Pushing Hand: Light Skin Tone.

• 🫷🫳 – Leftwards Pushing Hand and Palm Down Hand
• 🫷🫴 – Leftwards Pushing Hand with Palm up Hand
• 🫷🫸 – Leftwards Pushing Hand plus Rightwards Pushing Hand
• 🫷🫱 – Leftwards Pushing Hand and Rightwards Hand
• 🫷🫲 – Leftwards Pushing Hand with Leftwards Hand

Easy to mix up with 🫴 Palm up Hand, 🫴🏻 Palm up Hand: Light Skin Tone or 🫷🏻 Leftwards Pushing 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.