🫲️ Leftwards hand emoji

The leftwards hand emoji means a hand facing or gesturing to the left. It can point attention, show direction, suggest moving something left, or form part of a paired hand gesture.

Use 🫲 for left-side direction, layout cues, or matching another hand emoji. It directly contrasts with 🫱 Rightwards hand.

Could also be called left hand, leftwards gesture or left facing hand emoji.

Other meanings

Left hand, left direction, gesture left, pointing left, hand pair

Example Usage

Put the menu back on the left side 🫲

Variants

Related emoji

Hand gestures emojis

• 👋️ Waving hand
• 🤚️ Raised back of hand
• 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed
• ✋️ Raised hand

Visual description

On iOS, this emoji is a yellow hand shown sideways with fingers extending to the left. At small sizes, look for a horizontal hand shape facing the opposite way from rightwards hand.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.