Palm Up Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji meaning

What does 🫴🏾 mean in messages?

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

Use 🫴🏾 for people, gestures, roles, identity, or physical actions. Unicode calls it “palm up 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+1FAF4 unnamed unicode character, U+1F3FE emoji modifier fitzpatrick type-5.

Version and platform support

The palm up hand: medium-dark skin tone emoji was introduced in Emoji 14.0 and is classified in the hand fingers open subgroup. Most maintained platforms support this emoji, although artwork and sequence handling still vary by vendor.

Names, keywords, and classification

The standardized name is “palm up hand: medium-dark skin tone.” Search terms indexed for this entry include hand, medium-dark, palm, skin, tone, up. 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 “palm up 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.