🫹 Leftwards Thumb Sign emoji

Copy the 🫹 Leftwards Thumb Sign emoji (U+1FAF9), a People & Body emoji from Emoji 18.0 (2026), with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python and URL codes.

CLDR name: leftwards thumb sign
Code point: U+1FAF9
Type: Single code point
Group: People & Body
Subgroup: Hand fingers closed
Introduced: Emoji 18.0 (2026)
Keywords: grip, left, neutral, point, that, this

About this emoji

🫹 Leftwards Thumb Sign is an emoji in the People & Body group, hand fingers closed subgroup, first released in Emoji 18.0 (2026).

CLDR, the Unicode project that supplies emoji names in many languages, gives it the English keywords grip, left, neutral, point, that and this; that is what emoji keyboards match when you search.

It is a single code point, U+1FAF9, named LEFTWARDS THUMB SIGN in the Unicode standard.

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

Because it is recent, older phones and computers may show an empty box or a question mark until their emoji font is updated.

Skin tones

🫹🏻leftwards thumb sign: light skin toneU+1FAF9 U+1F3FB
🫹🏼leftwards thumb sign: medium-light skin toneU+1FAF9 U+1F3FC
🫹🏽leftwards thumb sign: medium skin toneU+1FAF9 U+1F3FD
🫹🏾leftwards thumb sign: medium-dark skin toneU+1FAF9 U+1F3FE
🫹🏿leftwards thumb sign: dark skin toneU+1FAF9 U+1F3FF

Codes to copy

HTML decimal	`🫹`Works in HTML and XML.
HTML hex	`🫹`Works in HTML and XML.
CSS	`content: "\1FAF9";`In a stylesheet, for ::before and ::after.
JavaScript	`"\uD83E\uDEF9"`Also valid in JSON. Characters above U+FFFF are written as a surrogate pair.
JavaScript (ES6)	`"\u{1FAF9}"`Code point escape; not valid in JSON.
Python	`"\U0001faf9"`Python 3 string literal.
Python by name	`"\N{LEFTWARDS THUMB SIGN}"`Readable alternative using the Unicode name.
URL	`%F0%9F%AB%B9`Percent-encoded UTF-8 bytes, for a path or query value.
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F AB B9`4 bytes.
UTF-16	`D83E DEF9`2 code units, which is what JavaScript length counts.

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