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Hand to the right Emoji

🫱 Rightwards hand

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🫱 Emoji meaning

Pointing to the right, direction, movement, handshake.

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🫱 Meaning

Turn right! The hand points to the right. Can stand for the hand itself or the movement, such as touch, take, point. Combined with the hand pointing to the left, the emojis make a handshake. 🫱🫲

Examples

Should we go right? 🫱
It goes to the right. 🫱
Come on, give me your hand! 🫱

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Rightwards hand

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Hand with fingers splayed

Splayed hand vs palm up hand; both show open hand with extended fingers, orientation is easy to miss.

Rightwards hand

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Rightwards vs leftwards palm up hands; both used for giving or offering, only direction differs.

Rightwards hand

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Palm up vs palm down; both are open hands in similar position and used for emphasis in gestures.

Variants

Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Rightwards hand” was approved as part of Unicode 14.0 in 2021 and added to Emoji 14.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ handshake + hold + reach + rightwards + shake

Keywords removed

- rightwards hand

In the release of Emoji 14.0 and Unicode 14.0 in 2021 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ hand + right + rightward + rightwards hand

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