Leftwards Pushing Hand: Dark Skin Tone emoji meaning

What does 🫷🏿 mean in messages?

Unicode calls this emoji “leftwards pushing hand with dark skin tone.” It can show the person, gesture, role, look, or action called leftwards pushing hand with dark skin tone.

Use 🫷🏿 for people, gestures, roles, identity, or physical actions. Unicode calls it “leftwards pushing hand with dark skin tone.” That name is a safe, neutral label when the social meaning is not clear.

For a wider view, browse people & body emoji, use the emoji meaning finder, or read the emoji skin-tone modifier guide.

Example messages with 🫷🏿

Unicode construction and code points

This copyable emoji is a multi-code-point emoji sequence. It uses 2 core Unicode code points: U+1FAF7 unnamed unicode character, U+1F3FF emoji modifier fitzpatrick type-6.

Version and platform support

The leftwards pushing hand: dark skin tone emoji was introduced in Emoji 15.0 and is classified in the hand fingers open subgroup. This is a relatively recent emoji, so older operating systems, apps, or fonts may show missing glyphs or separate sequence parts.

Names, keywords, and classification

The standardized name is “leftwards pushing hand: dark skin tone.” Search terms indexed for this entry include dark, hand, leftwards, pushing, skin, tone. It belongs to People & Body and the hand fingers open subgroup. These labels help identify and find the character; they do not prove a sender’s intended tone.

Accessibility and clear wording

For alt text, start with “leftwards pushing hand with dark skin tone.” Use clearer words when the emoji is only decoration, a metaphor, or slang.

Do not use this emoji as the only carrier of an emergency, deadline, consent decision, medical instruction, or other high-stakes message. The character is standardized, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and social platforms supply different artwork.