🫳Palm Down Hand Emoji

Meaning of 🫳 Palm Down Hand Emoji

The 🫳 “Palm Down Hand” emoji was approved by Unicode in 2021. The emoji is presented in profile and depicts the left hand with the back side up. Apart from the base color, yellow, it offers five additional skin tones.

The 🫳 “Palm Down Hand” emoji is used to express a certain action. For example, it can denote a hand movement, picking up an object, throwing, dropping or touching.

You can use the emoji when talking literally or metaphorically about something you’ve missed. In the first case, for example, together with the phrases “Dropped a 🥪 Sandwich on the floor” or “Lost the 🔑 Key to the 🏠 House somewhere”, and in the second – “Dropping everything and 🚗 Hitting the road!” or “We lost control over it”.

Use the 🫳 “Palm Down Hand” emoji to tell how you had to clean up after an 🦝🗑 uninvited guest arrived or chased a 🕷 Spider out of your 🏠 House. To describe events more vividly, send this emoji in combination with emoticons from the section 😂 “Smileys and Emotion”.

Interesting Facts:

• An iconic work of art featuring the gesture 🫳 “Palm Down Hand” is Michelangelo’s fresco “The Creation of Adam” (1508-1512). You can find the composition on the Sistine Chapel’s ceiling.