🫳 Palm Down Hand

Unicode lists 🫳 Palm Down Hand among the open-hand gestures in the People & Body group. Typical contexts are dismiss, down, drop and dropped. Unicode also files it under hand, palm, pick and shoo, which shows how widely it is read.

You can drop 🫳 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. It joined the standard with Emoji 14.0 in 2021, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1FAF3. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• 🫳 on its own already flags the topic: dismiss.
• Fits messages about dismiss, down, drop and dropped.
• Often seen near 🫲🏻 Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone, 🫲 Leftwards Hand and 🫳🏻 Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone.

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

Easy to mix up with 🫲🏻 Leftwards Hand: Light Skin Tone, 🫲 Leftwards Hand or 🫳🏻 Palm Down 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.