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U+1FAF2 · LEFTWARDS HAND

Leftwards Hand

  • CodepointU+1FAF2
  • NameLEFTWARDS HAND
  • Emoji nameleftwards hand
  • Decimal129778
  • BlockSymbols and Pictographs Extended-A (U+1FA70–U+1FAFF)
  • Plane1 — Supplementary Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version14.0 (2021)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthW — Wide
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+1FAF2 (🫲) is LEFTWARDS HAND, a symbol in the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 14.0 (2021).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “leftwards hand”, in the People & Body group, subgroup hand-fingers-open. It displays as a colour emoji by default. It accepts skin-tone modifiers (U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF).

Its East Asian Width is Wide, so terminals and monospaced layouts give it two columns.

How to type 🫲

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8F0 9F AB B24 bytes
UTF-16D83E DEF2surrogate pair
UTF-320001FAF24 bytes
HTML decimal🫲
HTML hex🫲
CSS\1FAF2in content: "…"
JavaScript\u{1FAF2}ES2015+
JavaScript\uD83E\uDEF2surrogate pair
JSON\uD83E\uDEF2
Python\U0001FAF2
Python\N{LEFTWARDS HAND}by name
Java / C#\uD83E\uDEF2
C / C++\U0001FAF2universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{1FAF2}
Go\U0001FAF2
Ruby\u{1FAF2}
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(129778)
URL-encoded%F0%9F%AB%B2percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A

All in block →
U+1FAF0🫰Hand with Index Finger and Thumb Crossed U+1FAF1🫱Rightwards Hand U+1FAF3🫳Palm Down Hand U+1FAF4🫴Palm Up Hand U+1FAF5🫵Index Pointing at the Viewer U+1FAF6🫶Heart Hands U+1FAF7🫷Leftwards Pushing Hand U+1FAF8🫸Rightwards Pushing Hand