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Hand Text Symbols
Hands are how a text face gets a verb: pointing, waving, flipping something over. On their own they also work as pointers in a list.
The pointing hands are Dingbats characters and render as text everywhere. The gesture kaomoji use Japanese brackets for the arms, which is why they read as hands at all.
Point right
☞
Point left
☜
Point up
☝
Point down
☟
Writing hand
✍
Victory
✌
Wave
(・ω・)ﾉ
Waving both
\(ˇ◡ˇ)/
Clapping
٩(ˇ◡ˇ)۶ ﹏
Shrug
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Hands up
\(°◡°)/
Reaching
(づ｡◕‿‿◕｡)づ
Finger guns
(ง ˘‿˘)ง
Thumbs up
ฅ(ˇ◡ˇ )
Flex
٩(ˇ◡ˇ)۶
Rude gesture
╭∩╮
Double rude
╭∩╮(ಠ_ಠ)╭∩╮
Praying
ฅ(˘ㅅ˘)ฅ
Facepalm
(・へ・)ฅ
Nail care
ฅ(─‿─)ฅ
Where these work
This page has 20 pieces: 20 single-line and 0 multi-line. The widest is 11 characters across.
Everything on this page is a single line, so there is nothing to align and nothing to break. These paste correctly into chat, bios, usernames, commit messages, spreadsheet cells and form fields alike.
Questions
Are the pointing hands emoji?
They are text characters from the Dingbats block, but several platforms give them an emoji presentation anyway, so you may get a coloured hand. There is no fully reliable way to force the text version.
Why does the shrug break when I paste it into Discord?
The backslash is an escape character in some inputs, so it eats itself. Paste, check the result, and retype the backslash if one went missing — or send it inside a code block.
Do these count as emoji for platforms that limit emoji?
Usually not, since most filters look for emoji ranges specifically. That is a common reason people use text hands where emoji are stripped.
Make your own
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