What does 🫳🏻 Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone mean?
🫳🏻 is the Palm Down Hand emoji (🫳) with a light skin tone (🏻, Fitzpatrick type 1–2) modifier. It means the same as the default yellow version; the skin tone simply lets people represent themselves or the person they are talking about.
Turned palm-down, this open hand looks as though it is letting something fall or patting the air. It suits dropping things – a new song, a hot take, a mic – and it can shoo someone away or signal “calm down, settle”. It can also show height, like a kid who is “this tall”. Its flipped counterpart 🫴 faces palm-up and leans toward offering instead of dropping.
🫳🏻 Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone is an emoji from the People & Body category (hand gestures: open fingers), added in Emoji 14.0 in 2021. People use it in messages about dismiss, drop, dropped, pick, shoo and up.
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🫳🏻 Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone looks on each platform.
Palm Down Hand in every skin tone
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Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🫳🏻 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone.
When was the Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone emoji added?
🫳🏻 Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone was added in Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Does the Palm Down Hand emoji come in different skin tones?
Yes. Besides the default yellow 🫳, there are 5 skin tone versions: 🫳🏻 🫳🏼 🫳🏽 🫳🏾 🫳🏿. Pick one in the skin tone section above.
Why does 🫳🏻 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Palm Down Hand: Light Skin Tone. The underlying code (U+1FAF3 U+1F3FB) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.