The Person Tipping Hand Emoji can be used in a number of creative ways. Most commonly it’s used to indicate sarcasm, mostly due to the smiley expression and hand raised as if holding something clear, tangible and easy to understand. An example of this would be your friend pointing something obvious out to you - in which you could respond: Wow didn’t see that 💁The emoji is often said to indicate a hair flick and is good for any occasions that would benefit from sassiness. Let’s say one of your colleagues offers to make you tea and you want to mess with them a bit. They ask you if you would like any milk or sugar and you reply: no thanks - i'm sweet enough 💁

Information Desk Person was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and later added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015, the same update that introduced Tears of Joy.