🫸Rightwards Pushing Hand Emoji
Generally, it means someone is pushing something – physically or metaphorically – away. It’s often used to express a refusal or a demand to stop.
Also searched as wait emoji
The 🫸 Rightwards Pushing Hand emoji shows a hand moving to the right, like it’s pushing something away.
- Unicode
- U+1FAF8
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :rightwards_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 🫸 Rightwards Pushing Hand emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 15 of them.
People also look for it as wait emoji, block emoji, pause emoji.
Rightwards Pushing Hand emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the rightwards pushing 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 Pushing Hand emoji skin tones
🫸 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Rightwards Pushing 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_pushing_hand:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAF8.
How to type the 🫸 Rightwards Pushing Hand emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Rightwards Pushing 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
Rightwards Pushing Hand emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around rightwards 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
Literally means “stop” or “pushing away,” but online it’s mostly the punchline half of a two-person meme format.
Reads as physically holding something, or someone, back from moving forward.
Paired with the leftward version to show two sides pushing against each other, usually comedic.
Before you send it: On its own it reads as “back off”; pair it with the leftward hand for the meme format people expect.
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 Pushing Hand
Code: U+1FAF8 · added 2022
Shortcode: :rightwards_pushing_hand:
Generally, it means someone is pushing something – physically or metaphorically – away.
Unicode name: Rightwards Hand
Code: U+1FAF1 · added 2021
Shortcode: :rightwards_hand:
Basically, it means "to the right" or “over here.
Where the 🫸 Rightwards Pushing Hand emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAF8 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 Pushing Hand was approved as U+1FAF8 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.