🫲 Leftwards Hand emoji

Copy the 🫲 Leftwards Hand emoji (U+1FAF2), a People & Body emoji from Emoji 14.0 (2021), with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: leftwards hand
Code point: U+1FAF2
Type: Single code point
Group: People & Body
Subgroup: Hand fingers open
Introduced: Emoji 14.0 (2021)
Keywords: hand, handshake, hold, left, leftward, leftwards, reach, shake

About this emoji

🫲 Leftwards Hand is an emoji in the People & Body group, hand fingers open subgroup, first released in Emoji 14.0 (2021).

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords hand, handshake, hold, left, leftward, leftwards, reach and shake; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is a single code point, U+1FAF2, named LEFTWARDS HAND in the Unicode standard.

Unicode also defines 5 skin tone versions, listed below with their own codes.

Skin tones

🫲🏻leftwards hand: light skin toneU+1FAF2 U+1F3FB
🫲🏼leftwards hand: medium-light skin toneU+1FAF2 U+1F3FC
🫲🏽leftwards hand: medium skin toneU+1FAF2 U+1F3FD
🫲🏾leftwards hand: medium-dark skin toneU+1FAF2 U+1F3FE
🫲🏿leftwards hand: dark skin toneU+1FAF2 U+1F3FF

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`🫲`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`🫲`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\1FAF2";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\uD83E\uDEF2"`Also valid in JSON. Characters above U+FFFF are written as a surrogate pair.
JavaScript (ES6)	`"\u{1FAF2}"`Code point escape; not valid in JSON.
Python	`"\U0001faf2"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{LEFTWARDS HAND}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%F0%9F%AB%B2`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F AB B2`4 bytes.
UTF-16	`D83E DEF2`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

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