🫷Leftwards Pushing Hand Emoji
Generally, it means someone is feeling sick or unwell. It’s a lighthearted way to express that.
Also searched as wait emoji
The 🫷 emoji, often called the “sick” hand, shows a hand pushing leftwards.
- Unicode
- U+1FAF7
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :leftwards_pushing_hand:
- Skin tones
- Yes
⚠️ Added in Emoji 15.0. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAF7. 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 Pushing Hand emoji skin tones
🫷 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :leftwards_pushing_hand:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the leftwards pushing hand, code point U+1FAF7.
How to type the 🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the leftwards pushing 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
Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around leftwards pushing 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🫷 means in other countries
Reads as “stop” or resistance on its own, but usually shows up as one side of a paired push-hands meme.
Holding something back, refusing, or blocking — fairly straightforward.
Combined with the rightward hand, it sets up a “two forces clashing” joke format.
Before you send it: Fine alone for “no” or “back off”; use both hands together for the meme version people expect.
What 🫷 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the leftwards pushing 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: Leftwards Pushing Hand
Code: U+1FAF7 · added 2022
Shortcode: :leftwards_pushing_hand:
Generally, it means someone is feeling sick or unwell.
Unicode name: Raised Back of Hand
Code: U+1F91A · added 2016
Shortcode: :raised_back_of_hand:
Generally, 🤚 means “stop” or “wait.
Where the 🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 15.0, the leftwards pushing hand has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 4.
Same character every time — U+1FAF7 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 Pushing Hand was approved as U+1FAF7 and shipped in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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.