If imagined in Apple/iOS-style concept art, the candidate would likely have appeared as a yellow or light-skinned open palm with all five fingers spread, shown as the mirror image of the standard splayed raised hand. Unicode-style proposal imagery or legacy-symbol references would more likely have shown it as a plain black-and-white pictograph, with no face, objects, or emotional expression beyond the gesture itself. Because it was not established as a regular Apple emoji design, any colorful version should be treated as a conceptual mockup rather than an official Apple rendering.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
