🫳️ Palm down hand emoji

The palm down hand emoji means lowering, pressing down, calming down, or keeping something under control. It can suggest reduce, settle, place down, or smooth out a situation.

Use 🫳 when the motion is downward or calming. It contrasts with 🫴 Palm up hand, which feels more like offering or receiving.

Could also be called palm down, lowering hand, pressing hand or calm down hand emoji.

Other meanings

Palm down, lower, press down, calm down, reduce, settle

Example Usage

Let us lower the volume a little 🫳

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 held flat with the palm facing downward. At small sizes, it looks like a horizontal hand pressing toward the ground.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.