What 🫷 means
Solo no, paired yes. Alone 🫷 is the stop hand pushing away. It was added in 2022 with its mirror so the two together show palms meeting, which ✋ alone cannot do.
Playful tease with friends; blunt stop with strangers.
If you wonder is it rude to send solo to a stranger, yes — it reads as a real rebuff.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1high five — palms meeting for celebration
Worth knowing
- 🫷 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Can one hand alone do a high five?
No. You need the pair 🫷🫸 for palms to meet. One 🫷 alone stays a push, however celebratory the chat.
How to type 🫷
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “leftwards pushing hand”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “leftwards pushing hand”.
Chat apps
:leftwards_pushing_hand:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🫷Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🫷
HTML hex
🫷
CSS content
content: "\1FAF7";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AB%B7
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.