U+1FAF3 U+1F3FF
Palm Down Hand: Dark Skin Tone
About
Palm down hand shown with the dark skin tone modifier. Part of the People & Body group, hand fingers open subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 14.0, released in 2021.
Platform renderings
11 platforms shown using your device's own emoji font. Their artwork is proprietary and this site does not redistribute it.
Timeline
2016 — 2026Showing 71 of 71 events through 2026
- 2016First render
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- 2021First render

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- 2021Unicode
Added in Emoji 14.0
Introduced in Emoji 14.0
- 2022First render

Android 12L shipped March 2022; the index had it a release early.
- 2022Redesign

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First appeared on Microsoft Teams
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Release date Windows 11 build 22h2.
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Release date Windows 11 build 23h2.
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Community-maintained fork after Twitter archived the original repo.
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First appeared on Microsoft 3D Fluent
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Microsoft Windows 11 23h2 June 2024 Update
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Date it reached devices. AOSP source dropped 2024-09-03.
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Microsoft 3D Fluent Fluent 16.0
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First appeared on Noto Animated Emoji
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Microsoft Windows 11 24h2 August 2025 Update
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Encodings
- UTF-8
F0 9F AB B3 F0 9F 8F BF- UTF-8 escaped
\xF0\x9F\xAB\xB3\xF0\x9F\x8F\xBF- UTF-16
D83E DEF3 D83C DFFF- UTF-32
0001FAF3 0001F3FF- HTML decimal
🫳🏿- HTML hex
🫳🏿- CSS
\01FAF3\01F3FF- JavaScript
\u{1FAF3}\u{1F3FF}- JS surrogateFor pre-ES2015 targets
\uD83E\uDEF3\uD83C\uDFFF- Python
\U0001FAF3\U0001F3FF- URL encoded
%F0%9F%AB%B3%F0%9F%8F%BF- Base64
8J+rs/Cfj78=
Unicode proposals
The document submitted to the Unicode Consortium that introduced this character.
Related
Frequently asked questions
- What does 🫳🏿 mean?
- Palm down hand shown with the dark skin tone modifier. Part of the People & Body group, hand fingers open subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. It is commonly tagged palm down hand: dark skin tone, dark skin tone, dismiss, down, drop and dropped.
- What is the Unicode code point for 🫳🏿?
- Palm down hand: dark skin tone is not a single character. It is written as U+1FAF3 U+1F3FF — a sequence of 2 code points that displays as one emoji.
- When was 🫳🏿 added to Unicode?
- 🫳🏿 was approved as part of Emoji 14.0 and released in 2021, under Unicode 14.0.
- How do I type 🫳🏿?
- Copy 🫳🏿 from this page, or type its shortcode — :palm_down_hand::skin_tone_6:, :palm_down_hand_dark_skin_tone: and :palm_down_hand_tone5: — in an app that expands them, such as GitHub, Slack or Discord.
- Why does 🫳🏿 look different on my phone?
- Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point, so 🫳🏿 changes depending on where you see it. This page compares 70 renderings, including Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft.
- Is 🫳🏿 a skin tone variant?
- Yes — 🫳🏿 is a skin tone variant, written as a base emoji followed by a skin tone modifier.
- What is 🫳🏿 called in other languages?
- Unicode's CLDR publishes a name for it in 9 other languages, including راحة يد للأسفل: بشرة بلون غامق in Arabic, Hand mit Handfläche nach unten: dunkle Hautfarbe in German and mano con la palma hacia abajo: tono de piel oscuro in Spanish.
- What category is 🫳🏿 in?
- 🫳🏿 belongs to Unicode's People & Body group, in the hand fingers open subgroup.