🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand
People & Body
🫷 Leftwards Pushing Hand Meaning
The leftwards pushing hand emoji (🫷) shows a hand with fingers extended, pushing to the left. This gesture has evolved to represent various concepts in digital communication. Primarily, it suggests movement away or rejection - as if pushing something or someone aside. In social media contexts, it's often used to express disagreement, dismissal, or the act of 'moving on' from a topic or situation. Some interpret it as a way to indicate something is being sent or passed to the left, while others see it as a physical barrier or stopping motion. Unlike more traditional hand emojis, this one is relatively new (added in 2020), so its meaning is still being established. Platform variations exist, with some implementations showing more defined fingers than others.
When to Use
Use 🫷 to indicate rejection, disagreement, or the act of pushing something away. It's effective when discussing boundaries, dismissing ideas, or showing directional movement to the left. Use it when you want to emphasize a physical action of pushing or sending something in a leftward direction, especially in casual digital communication.
Examples
- I'm not interested in that argument anymore 🫷 let's move on.
- Could you pass that document to Sarah on your left? 🫷
- That's not the right direction for our project 🫷 we need to reconsider.
- When he made the inappropriate comment, I responded with a pushing gesture 🫷
- The traffic was backed up, so we had to push the car to the shoulder 🫷
How It Looks on Different Platforms
The Leftwards Pushing Hand emoji may look different across platforms and devices.
Unicode Information
U+1FAF7🫷\1FAF715.016.4