Leftwards pushing hand
Emoji 15.0 ยท People & Body ยท :leftwards_pushing_hand:
Also known as: block, five, halt, hand, high, hold, leftward, leftwards, pause, push, pushing, refuse, slap, stop, wait
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Skin tones
Copy as code
What Leftwards pushing hand Means
People reach for ๐ซท when they mean block, five, halt, hand, high and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Leftwards pushing hand is one of the people & body emoji, alongside ๐ ๐ค ๐๏ธ โ ๐ and 5 more in the same family. It supports all five skin tone modifiers, so ๐ซท can be sent as ๐ซท๐ป ๐ซท๐ผ ๐ซท๐ฝ ๐ซท๐พ ๐ซท๐ฟ.
History & Platforms
Leftwards pushing hand was added in 2022 as part of Emoji 15.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ซท is the single code point U+1FAF7, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :leftwards_pushing_hand:.
How To Use ๐ซท
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ซท๐๐ค and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :leftwards_pushing_hand: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.