Rightwards hand
Emoji 14.0 ยท People & Body ยท :rightwards_hand:
Also known as: hand, handshake, hold, reach, right, rightward, rightwards, shake
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Skin tones
Copy as code
What Rightwards hand Means
People reach for ๐ซฑ when they mean hand, handshake, hold, reach, right and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Rightwards 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 ๐ซฑ can be sent as ๐ซฑ๐ป ๐ซฑ๐ผ ๐ซฑ๐ฝ ๐ซฑ๐พ ๐ซฑ๐ฟ.
History & Platforms
Rightwards hand was added in 2021 as part of Emoji 14.0. 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 ๐ซฑ is the single code point U+1FAF1, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :rightwards_hand:.
How To Use ๐ซฑ
- 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 ๐ซฑ๐๐ค and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :rightwards_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.