What 🫷🏾 means
🫷🏾 is the Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji with the medium-dark skin tone applied — same meaning and uses, in the tone that looks like you.
A hand pushing to the left, palm flat, as if stopping something — or high-fiving someone coming the other way. The 🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) is one half of a matched pair with 🫸; together they finally made a proper two-person high five possible.
Read the full meaning and usage guide for 🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand →
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hand-fingers-open
- Codepoints
U+1FAF7 U+1F3FE- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:leftwards_pushing_hand_tone4:Discord:leftwards_pushing_hand_medium_dark_skin_tone:Discord- Keywords
- block, five, halt, hand, high, hold, leftward, leftwards, medium-dark skin tone, pause, push, pushing, refuse, slap, stop, wait
- Variant of
- 🫷 leftwards pushing hand · how tone modifiers work
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🫷🏾 Leftwards Pushing Hand: Medium-dark Skin Tone or 🏀 Basketball?