🫲Leftwards Hand Emoji
Generally, it means “left” or “go that way. ” People use it when they’re literally pointing left, or figuratively suggesting a leftward direction.
The 🫲 emoji represents a hand pointing left.
- Unicode
- U+1FAF2
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :leftwards_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 🫲 Leftwards Hand emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Leftwards Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAF2. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Leftwards Hand emoji skin tones
🫲 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Leftwards 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 :leftwards_hand:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAF2.
How to type the 🫲 Leftwards Hand emoji
No picker to hand? The leftwards hand can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Leftwards Hand emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Leftwards Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around leftwards 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
Who sent the leftwards hand and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🫲 means in other countries
The mirror half of the handshake pair — mostly meaningless alone, clear once combined with the rightward hand.
On its own it reads as a generic open hand, with no strong meaning attached.
Forms a two-person handshake, letting each side pick its own skin tone.
Before you send it: Pair it with the rightward hand for a proper handshake; sent solo it won’t say much.
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: Leftwards Hand
Code: U+1FAF2 · added 2021
Shortcode: :leftwards_hand:
Generally, it means “left” or “go that way.
Unicode name: Waving Hand
Code: U+1F44B · added 2010
Shortcode: :wave:
Generally, 👋 means “hello” or “goodbye.
Where the 🫲 Leftwards Hand emoji came from
It arrived with the 14.0 release of the standard, which dates the leftwards hand to 2021.
Same character every time — U+1FAF2 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.
Leftwards Hand was approved as U+1FAF2 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.