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Rightwards Hand Emoji 🫱

A palm-up hand reaching toward the right, the rightwards-hand emoji is built to pair with other directional hands. Combined with a leftwards hand it forms a custom handshake or hug, and on its own it reads as offering, giving, or gesturing toward something to the right.

What 🫱 means

A yellow hand approaching in the right direction, depicted in motion to grab another hand in a shake. The direction of the hand may also be interpreted as the east. The emoji showcases the tanned side of the open rightwards hand.

The 🫱 Rightwards Hand emoji suggests a hand going in for a handshake. It signifies initiation, agreement, a deal, or even a navigational sign (hand in this case), pointing or reaching to the right. It could also symbolize the metaphorical manner of helping someone and asking for help - giving or asking for a hand.

How and when to use it

How and When to 🫱 Rightwards Hand Emoji

You may use this emoji as a way of offering peace via a handshake. It could be initiated or reciprocated with the same emoji.
If you're reaching out for something or to something/someone, you could convey it with this emoji. Like, "Hi, guys! Do like and support our cause! 🫱".
If you're making the not-so-serious deals on chat or sealing some of them, you can use 🫱. For example, "I'll bring the booze, and you get the music. Cool? 🫱".
Use this emoji while being on the giving side as well; as the "helping hand". For instance, "Little deeds can result in the biggest things 🫱"
The right hand is generally the dominant hand for most of us. We do a lot of things with our right hands, from writing to eating, and even in a little self-love. Pop culture has turned the right hand as a symbol for "sexual self-help" and you may apply this emoji in this twisted way too.
This emoji also refers to the "tag" hand, which is otherwise a game of staying as far from touch as possible. Ironic. But, you may use this 'tag' in the sense of transferring something or even forming or making a team with this emoji - "Didn't know we'd make such a great team! 🫱".

Other Names

🫱 Left Hand Moving to the Right Side
🫱 Helping (Left) Hand
🫱 Left Handshake
🫱 Left Hand Touch
🫱 Hand Reaching Out
🫱 Patting Hand
🫱 Agreement
🫱 Left Hand Tag
🫱 Right Direction
🫱 Backhand
🫱 Back Hand Slap

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › hand-fingers-open
Codepoints: U+1FAF1
Emoji version: Emoji 14.0
Shortcodes: :rightwards_hand:
Keywords: hand, handshake, hold, reach, right, rightward, rightwards, shake

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.