U+1F591 "🖑" Reversed Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed Unicode Character

U+1F591 "🖑" Reversed Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed is a rarely used symbol from the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, depicting a left hand shown from the palm side with all five fingers spread apart. It is essentially a mirrored version of the more common "Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed" (U+1F590), and its intended usage includes representing a hand gesture of stopping, warding off, or expressing a neutral "talk to the hand" sentiment, though it has seen limited adoption in mainstream digital communication. The character was added to the Unicode standard in 2014 as part of Unicode 7.0, but it may not render consistently across all devices and platforms, often appearing as a simple black-and-white outline or a placeholder symbol.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F591
Version Added	7.0
Name	Reversed Raised Hand with Fingers Splayed
Block	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
General Category	Other Symbol
Canonical Combining Class	Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class	Other Neutral

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding	🖑
HTML Hex Encoding	🖑
UTF-8 Encoding	0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x91
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD91
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F591
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd91

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other