🫱 Rightwards Hand

Emoji Meaning

An open right hand facing right, so as to show the back of the hand with the thumb on the top and the pinky on the bottom.

This emoji was developed along with 🫲 Leftwards Hand to allow for the creation of ZWJ Sequences that depict 🤝 Handshake with two different skin tone modifiers applied, one to each hand.

Rightwards Hand was approved as part of Unicode 14.0 in 2021 and added to Emoji 14.0 in 2021.

🚩 Approved in September 2021 as part of Emoji 14.0. Now available across all major emoji platforms.

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