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palm down hand

Palm Down Hand

🫳 means calm down — a flat hand patting the air to say settle down, drop it, ease off. Solo it waves off drama, but mid-argument it can sound patronizing. In Japan and nearby, the same shape helps beckon someone over.

EmojiSince 2021

Search it as: palm down · calm down · settle down · quiet down · beckon · come here · dismiss · shoo
Type it as: :palm_down_hand:
Around since: 2021 · Emoji 14.0
Shows up on: Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

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What 🫳 means

🫳 is the palm down hand emoji, filed under People & Body in the hand-fingers-open subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.

It was added in Emoji 14.0 (2021) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 14.0 (2021).

How it is encoded

🫳 is a single code point, U+1FAF3.

It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.

Flat and downward, it reads as press-it-down — calmer than a stop sign, blunter than a shrug.

Sent solo mid-argument, it can look like you're telling the other person to sit and behave — patronizing, not neutral.

Don't confuse it with

🫴

Palm Up Hand

Palm up hand — the reverse gesture: offering, asking, or 'give me,' not press-down or dismiss.

Combination ideas

Try for take-a-breath, let's drop it.

Try for over here, scoop them closer.

Worth knowing

🫳 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.

Questions people ask

Does the palm-down gesture ever mean 'come here'?

Yes — as of 2026, beckoning with the palm down and fingers scooping inward is still the polite version in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines. Palm-up beckoning there reads as rude or animal-calling.

How to type 🫳

Windows

Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “palm down hand”.

macOS

Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.

iOS / Android

Emoji keyboard → search “palm down hand”.

Chat apps

:palm_down_hand:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.

HTML

🫳

Codes and encoding1 code points

HTML decimal

🫳

HTML hex

🫳

CSS content

content: "\1FAF3";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%AB%B3

On screen

Code points

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UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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