OK Hand emoji
Type :ok_hand: · #32 most-used emoji · People & body
Unicode name Ok Hand · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 👌 means
OK, perfect, exactly right. It survived a period of contested meanings and in everyday use is back to meaning nicely done or noted.
If you are trying to read into it
OK, perfect, exactly right. It went through a period of contested meaning and in ordinary use it has come back to meaning approval, plainly. It reads slightly more emphatic than 👍 and slightly less final.
How to type 👌 without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :ok_h
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 👌 from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:ok_hand: Search terms
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Skin tones for 👌
OK Hand comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 👌 in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 👌🏻 light 👌🏼 medium-light 👌🏽 medium 👌🏾 medium-dark 👌🏿 dark 👌 in HTML, CSS and code
OK Hand is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F44C
- HTML
- 👌
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F44C}'
- CSS content
- "\1F44C"
- Python
- '\U0001F44C'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%91%8C
Related emojis
:love_you_gesture: 👏 :clap: 🙆 :all_good: 🙆♂️ :man_gesturing_ok: 🙆♀️ :woman_gesturing_ok: 👋 :wave: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🖖 :vulcan: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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That is exactly what the extension removes. Here is the whole interaction, in every text field you already use:
You type
You get
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