pointing emoji
The leftwards pushing hand with a medium-dark skin tone, often used as a pointing emoji to indicate 'stop' or 'talk to the hand'.
There are different emoji meanings for pointing emoji in different cultures:
- Western culture
- Commonly used dismissively, as in 'talk to the hand' or to indicate 'stop'.
- East Asian culture
- May be less universally understood as a dismissive gesture, might be seen as a simple hand gesture but the 'stop' meaning is generally recognized.