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Hands and gestures

What it means when sent

It draws a manicure but is used far more for unbothered self-assurance — “I said what I said”. Read as beauty talk, the sentence stops making sense.

Official name vs. real use

The name Unicode gave it and the way people use it are not the same. If you searched your way here, the second one is usually what you were after.

A single code point. One backspace deletes it.

Gestures split by country: the same picture is praise in one place and an insult in another. Each entry says where.

Using emojis

Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere — it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (🙃, 😅).
At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare 👍 reads as a brush-off.
Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking — they are usually stripped from the result.
Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.

Q. What does 💅 mean?

It draws a manicure but is used far more for unbothered self-assurance — “I said what I said”. Read as beauty talk, the sentence stops making sense.

Q. What is its official name?

Unicode calls it nail polish, code point U+1F485. It sits under Hands and gestures.

Q. Does it survive copy and paste?

On most devices, yes — though every vendor draws it slightly differently.