🫴Palm Up Hand Emoji
Generally, it means “I’m ready to receive” or “please give me. ” It’s a simple way to show you’re open to what someone is offering.
The 🫴 emoji shows a hand raised upwards, like you're offering something or asking for help.
- Unicode
- U+1FAF4
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :palm_up_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 Up Hand emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 11.
People also look for it as know emoji.
Palm Up Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FAF4 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your palm up hand looks like to the person on the other side.
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 Up Hand emoji skin tones
🫴 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Palm Up Hand emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :palm_up_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+1FAF4.
How to type the 🫴 Palm Up Hand emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Palm Up 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
Palm Up Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around palm up 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
Reads as offering, presenting, or receiving something — an open, welcoming gesture with little variation.
“Here you go” or “what do you think” — an inviting, neutral gesture.
Paired with palm-down in a viral back-and-forth hand sequence.
Before you send it: Safe for offering or presenting something; works well paired with palm-down for the dance-trend nod.
What 🫴 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the palm up hand lands changes how it is taken.
🫴 vs 🤚 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Palm Up Hand
Code: U+1FAF4 · added 2021
Shortcode: :palm_up_hand:
Generally, it means “I’m ready to receive” or “please give me.
Unicode name: Raised Back of Hand
Code: U+1F91A · added 2016
Shortcode: :raised_back_of_hand:
Generally, 🤚 means “stop” or “wait.
Where the 🫴 Palm Up Hand emoji came from
It arrived with the 14.0 release of the standard, which dates the palm up hand to 2021.
Same character every time — U+1FAF4 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 Up Hand was approved as U+1FAF4 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.