U+1FAF3 "🫳" Palm down Hand Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

🫳

U+1FAF3 "🫳" Palm down Hand is an emoji depicting a human hand with the palm facing downward and fingers extended, often used in digital communication to represent gestures like pressing down, stopping, or indicating a lowered position. It belongs to the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block and was added to the Unicode Standard in version 14.0 in 2021, reflecting a growing need for diverse hand gesture representations in text and online platforms. This character can convey actions such as pressing a button gently, signaling a pause, or showing a request for calmness, depending on the conversational context. Its design varies slightly across different platforms and operating systems, but it consistently maintains the palm down orientation to distinguish it from similar hand emojis like the raised hand or palm up hand gestures.

General Properties

Code Point U+1FAF3
Version Added 14.0
Name Palm down Hand
Block Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A
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 0xAB 0xB3
UTF-16 Encoding 0xD83E 0xDEF3
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0001FAF3
C/C++/Java Escape \ud83e\udef3

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 Emoji Base
East Asian Width Wide
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
Emoji Yes
Emoji Presentation Yes
Emoji Modifier Base Yes
Extended Pictographic Yes