🫷🏻 Leftwards Pushing Hand: Light Skin Tone

The 🫷🏻 Leftwards Pushing Hand: Light Skin Tone emoji belongs to the open-hand gestures, filed by Unicode under People & Body. People send it when the subject is block, five, halt and hand. The keyword list continues with high, hold, leftward and leftwards.

🫷🏻 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. The character has been part of the standard since 2022 (Emoji 15.0). On older phones and operating systems it may still show as an empty box. Its code point is U+1FAF7 U+1F3FB.

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

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

Easy to mix up with 🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand, 🫸 Rightwards Pushing Hand or 🫴🏻 Palm up 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.