The Unicode Consortium approved the emoji 🫱 “Rightwards Hand” in 2021. The open yellow hand with the thumb up is shown on the back side. It is placed horizontally and faces east. The emoji represents the right hand and is used in the context of reaching out, agreeing, touching, pointing the direction and patting on the shoulder.

👍 Thumbs up is a yellow hand emoji with an upward thumb and closed fist (hand fingers closed). the thumbs-up hand gesture is generally used to express approval, acceptance, and support with a positive meaning. Thumbs up emoji can replace the “Okay”, “Cool”, “Alright”, and +1 kinds of sentences.