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🫸️ Rightwards pushing hand emoji

🫸️

Emoji #179

HTML

🫸

Unicode

U+1FAF8

What is 🫸️ called?

🫸️ is called the Rightwards pushing hand emoji.

Commonly called the right-push hand, stop-right hand, or blocking hand. “High-five hand” applies only when another hand and suitable arrangement provide that context.

What does 🫸️ mean?

🫸 shows a vertical palm pushing toward the right. It can signal stop, block, refuse, protect a boundary, move something right, or apply sideways pressure.

Paired with 🫷 Leftwards pushing hand, it can create a two-hand barrier, push, or high-five-like arrangement depending on order. Alone, it specifically presents a rightward push.

Other meanings

Push right, halt, wait, rejection, resistance, personal boundaries, blocking, a sideways shove, or one half of a two-hand composition.

Example Usage

Slide the control toward the right 🫸

Keep the unwanted messages out 🫸

More details

Officially named rightwards pushing hand. Its code point is U+1FAF8, introduced in Emoji 15.0. It supports skin-tone modifiers and mirrors 🫷 Leftwards pushing hand.

Variants

🫸🏻

Light skin tone

🫸🏻

🫸🏼

Medium-light skin tone

🫸🏼

🫸🏽

Medium skin tone

🫸🏽

🫸🏾

Medium-dark skin tone

🫸🏾

🫸🏿

Dark skin tone

🫸🏿

Visual description

An upright hand viewed from the side, palm facing right, fingers together, and wrist entering from the left.

It appears to press against an invisible surface. Default colour is yellow, with five supported skin-tone variants.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

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