🫱Rightwards Hand

Meaning of 🫱 Rightwards Hand Emoji

The Unicode Consortium approved the emoji 🫱 “Rightwards Hand” in 2021. The open yellow hand with the thumb up is shown on the back side. It is placed horizontally and faces east.

The emoji represents the right hand and is used in the context of reaching out, agreeing, touching, pointing the direction and patting on the shoulder. The image also symbolizes a 🤝 Handshake.

Send an emoji as a greeting, combined with 😊🙃😃 smiling emoticons. Express your willingness to help and support by sending this emoji in your messaging. Also, use it to indicate your direction when traveling.

Extend a hand to your opponent in the form of an emoji to make a bet. Finally send an emoji to make up and call for ☮️ Peace and 🤗 Friendship through 🤝 a handshake.

Interesting Facts:

• As basic modifiers, 🫱 “Rightwards Hand” is combined with the 🫲 “Leftwards Hand” emoji. The result of this fusion is a new sequence of 5 additional tones of the 🤝 “Handshake” emoji;
• Up to 90% of the 🌎 Earth population are “righties”;
• Right-handed players don’t always have the right leg as their leading 🦵 Foot. This can easily be traced in right-handed ⚽🏃 players who prefer to use their left foot in the game.