U+1FAF4 "🫴" Palm Up Hand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🫴
U+1FAF4 "🫴" Palm Up Hand is a relatively new addition to the Unicode Standard, part of the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A block, and depicts a hand with the palm facing upward and slightly open. It is commonly used in digital communication to convey gestures of offering, requesting, or expressing openness, such as "give it to me," "what is that?," or a shrug indicating uncertainty or a lack of knowledge. The character can also be interpreted as a non verbal cue for prompting someone to speak or share information, making it a versatile symbol in text and emoji based conversations across various platforms and operating systems.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAF4 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Palm Up 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 0xB4 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDEF4 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAF4 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udef4 |