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🫳🏿 palm down hand emoji
The palm down hand emoji 🫳🏿 depicts an open hand with its palm facing downward. It is used in contexts related to lowering, dropping, picking up, dismissing, or shooing something away. The gesture can help indicate a downward hand motion in messages and notes.
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- Category
- People & Body
- Unicode version
- 14.0
- Release year
- 2021
- Unicode sequence
- U+1FAF3 U+1F3FF
- Emoji version
- 14.0
What does 🫳🏿 mean?
A hand with the palm facing downwards, fingers spread apart, and the thumb slightly apart from the other fingers. The skin tone varies across platforms. This emoji represents a gesture where the hand is held flat with the palm facing down, often used to indicate a command or request for something to be placed in the hand. It is part of the 'hand-fingers-open' series in the Unicode standard.
Common uses
- Indicating a request for an object: 'Can you pass me the salt? 🫳'
- Expressing a command or instruction: 'Put the report on my desk 🫳'
- Symbolizing a downward motion or direction: 'The plane is descending 🫳'
In a message
Please place the documents here 🫳 for review.
She gestured 🫳 for him to hand over the keys.
The magician asked the audience to place their hands 🫳 and make a wish.
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What does 🫳🏿 mean?
A hand with the palm facing downwards, fingers spread apart, and the thumb slightly apart from the other fingers. The skin tone varies across platforms. This emoji represents a gesture where the hand is held flat with the palm facing down, often used to indicate a command or request for something to be placed in the hand. It is part of the 'hand-fingers-open' series in the Unicode standard.
How do I copy Palm Down Hand: Dark Skin Tone?
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