🫷Leftwards Pushing Hand

Meaning of 🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand Emoji

🫷 “Leftwards Pushing Hand” depicts a hand extended and bent at the wrist showing a 🛑 “Stop” gesture or pushing something forward with an open palm. Along with five other skin tones, the emoji became a part of the Unicode 15.0 list released in 2022.

The emoji 🫷 “Leftwards Pushing Hand” signifies denial, rejection, resistance and 🛡 Defense. It can act as a warning and show a physical nudge. It is expected that the emoji will often be combined with 🫸 “Rightwards Pushing Hand”. In particular, to demonstrate the “High five” and 🫸🫷 “Hold this!” gestures.

You can use the emoji in a metaphorical way too. For example, when asking a neighbour to push a stalled 🚗🫷 car. Also add the 🫷 “Leftwards Pushing Hand” emoji when talking about something 🚽🧽🫷🙅‍♂️ you don’t want to do or something 🧦🫷😖 unpleasant and 😚🫷 repulsive.

There are other applications for it as well. For instance, use the emoji to let your other half know that it’s time to end playing 🎮🫷😑 video games or tell your social media followers that you’ve given up 🍩🫷🙅 eating floury and 🍬🫷🙅 sweets. Also use themed emoticons from the 😂 “Smileys and Emotion” category along with the Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji.

Interesting Facts:

• On the third Thursday of 🌺 April, 🇺🇸 Americans celebrate National High Five Day. Both in-person and virtual events on this day are most often dedicated to charity.