🫱Rightwards Hand Emoji
Basically, it means "to the right" or “over here. ” People use it to direct attention or suggest a path.
The 🫱 emoji shows a right hand pointing outwards.
- Unicode
- U+1FAF1
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :rightwards_hand:
- Skin tones
- Yes
⚠️ Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🫱 Rightwards Hand emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
People also look for it as handshake emoji.
Rightwards Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the rightwards hand as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Rightwards Hand emoji skin tones
🫱 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Rightwards Hand emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :rightwards_hand:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAF1.
How to type the 🫱 Rightwards Hand emoji
No picker to hand? The rightwards hand can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Rightwards Hand emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the rightwards hand as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Rightwards Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around rightwards hand for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🫱, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🫱 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🫱 means in other countries
Rarely sent alone — it mainly exists to pair with its leftward twin into a two-tone handshake or fist bump.
By itself it just reads as an open hand, gesture unclear without more context.
Together they form a custom-skin-tone handshake, showing two people agreeing.
Before you send it: Send it paired with the leftward hand for a handshake; alone it barely registers as a message.
What 🫱 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
🫱 vs 👋 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Rightwards Hand
Code: U+1FAF1 · added 2021
Shortcode: :rightwards_hand:
Basically, it means "to the right" or “over here.
Unicode name: Waving Hand
Code: U+1F44B · added 2010
Shortcode: :wave:
Generally, 👋 means “hello” or “goodbye.
Where the 🫱 Rightwards Hand emoji came from
It arrived with the 14.0 release of the standard, which dates the rightwards hand to 2021.
Same character every time — U+1FAF1 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Rightwards Hand was approved as U+1FAF1 and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🫱 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.