🫳Palm Down Hand Emoji
Generally, it means “lower that” or “calm down. ” People use it to suggest reducing something, like volume or a reaction.
The 🫳 emoji is a hand with a palm facing down.
- Unicode
- U+1FAF3
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :palm_down_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 🫳 Palm Down Hand emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 9.
Palm Down Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the palm down 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.
Palm Down Hand emoji skin tones
🫳 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Palm Down Hand emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :palm_down_hand:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1FAF3.
How to type the 🫳 Palm Down Hand emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Palm Down Hand emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the palm down 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
Palm Down Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around palm down 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 palm down hand and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🫳 means in other countries
Reads as “let go,” “drop it,” or a dismissive gesture, often paired with palm-up in a call-and-response dance trend.
Signals releasing or dropping something, whether literal or figurative.
Alternated with palm-up in a viral hand-movement sequence — more dance move than statement.
Before you send it: Reads clearly as “dropping” or dismissing something; little risk of it landing wrong.
What 🫳 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FAF3, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🫳 vs 🤚 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Palm Down Hand
Code: U+1FAF3 · added 2021
Shortcode: :palm_down_hand:
Generally, it means “lower that” or “calm down.
Unicode name: Raised Back of Hand
Code: U+1F91A · added 2016
Shortcode: :raised_back_of_hand:
Generally, 🤚 means “stop” or “wait.
Where the 🫳 Palm Down Hand emoji came from
It arrived with the 14.0 release of the standard, which dates the palm down hand to 2021.
Same character every time — U+1FAF3 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.
Palm Down Hand was approved as U+1FAF3 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.