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Hand to the left Emoji

🫲 Leftwards hand

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🫲 Emoji meaning

Peace offering, help, grasping, handshake.

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🫲 Meaning

I extend my hand to you! The hand is directed to the left. Could represent a peace offering. It represents a helping hand, reaching for something, or in combination with the hand pointing to the right, a handshake.

Examples

Need a hand? 🫲
I’m happy to help. 🫲
Come on, we’ve got this! 🫲

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Leftwards hand

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Palm up vs palm down; orientation is subtle and often ignored by users.

Direction Variant

Leftwards hand

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Rightwards hand

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

Variants

Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Leftwards 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 + leftwards + reach + shake

Keywords removed

- leftwards hand

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ hand + left + leftward + leftwards hand

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