🫲
🫲 Leftwards Hand Emoji
An open right hand facing left, so as to show the palm of the hand with the thumb on the top and the pinky on the bottom.
This emoji was developed along with 🫱 Rightwards Hand to allow for the creation of ZWJ Sequences that depict 🤝 Handshake with two different skin tone modifiers applied, one to each hand.
| Emoji | 🫲 |
| Unicode Name | Leftwards Hand |
| Apple Name | |
| Also Known As | |
| Codepoints | U+1FAF2 |
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | বমদক হত |
| Danish | hånd mod venstre |
| German | linke hand |
| English | leftwards hand |
| Spanish | mano orientada hacia la izquierda |
| French | main tendue vers la gauche |
| Hindi | बई ओर हथ |
| Italian | mano verso sinistra |
| Japanese | 左向きの手 |
| Korean | 왼쪽 손 |
| Marathi | डव बज दरशवणर हत |
| Malay | tangan ke kiri |
| Dutch | hand naar links |
| Norwegian | hånd som går mot venstre |
| Portuguese | mão para a esquerda |
| Swedish | vänsterhand |
| Tamil | இடத பறததக கடடம க |
| Telugu | ఎడమవపక చప చయ |
| Chinese | 向左的手 |
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