Leftwards Pushing Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji meaning

What does 🫷🏾 mean in messages?

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

Use 🫷🏾 for people, gestures, roles, identity, or physical actions. Unicode calls it “leftwards pushing hand with medium-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+1F3FE emoji modifier fitzpatrick type-5.

Version and platform support

The leftwards pushing hand: medium-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: medium-dark skin tone.” Search terms indexed for this entry include hand, leftwards, medium-dark, 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 medium-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.