rightwards pushing hand: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 1FAF8 1F3FE
Description
An emoji showing open hands, palms facing up, as if offering or receiving, combined with a medium-dark skin tone modifier.
Group:
People & Body > hand-fingers-open
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Typically expresses openness, pleading, questioning, helplessness, or surprise. The addition of a skin tone allows for greater personal representation.
Backstory
The 'Palms Up Together' emoji (1FAF8) was introduced in Unicode 14.0 (2021) as part of a move to include more specific and nuanced hand gestures. The skin tone modifier (1F3FE) is part of a broader set of modifiers introduced earlier (Unicode 8.0, 2015) to allow users to customize human-representing emojis to match their own skin color.
Usage Examples
- Expressing confusion: 'I have no idea what you're talking about. 🫸🏾🫷🏾'
- Pleading: 'Please, just give me one more chance. 🫸🏾🫷🏾'
- Offering: 'Here, take it. 🫸🏾🫷🏾'
- Surprise/Disbelief: 'Seriously? You did that? 🫸🏾🫷🏾'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used to convey 'I don't know,' 'What do you want from me?', a shrug, or sometimes pleading/begging.
East Asian culture:
Can also be used for 'give me' or 'let me have it,' or to politely offer something. Its meaning can be highly context-dependent.