Sideways White Left Pointing Index

→ 261C ☜ white left pointing index

Information

Sideways White Left Pointing Index refers to a proposed or discussed pointing-hand emoji concept based on older Unicode and typographic “manicule” symbols, especially the white left-pointing index hand. It was associated with the idea of turning a classic printed pointing finger into a colorful emoji-style character for directing attention, saying “look here,” indicating something to the left, or emphasizing a previous message. While related pointing hands did become standard emoji, this exact candidate name and concept did not become a distinct officially approved emoji. It remains best understood as a historical or conceptual emoji candidate rather than a finalized Apple or Unicode emoji character.

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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.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	2585 of 2393
Google Android Picture	Image not available
Google Hangouts Picture	Image not available
Twitter.com Picture	Image not available
LG Emoji Picture	Image not available
Samsung Emoji Picture	Image not available
Phantom Open Emoji Picture	Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:white_left_pointing:
Keywords

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range	1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory	Gesture Symbols

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 8 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	🖘
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	🖘
Decimal HTML Entity	🖘
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	🖘
Hex Code Point(s)	1f598
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F598
Decimal Code Point(s)	128408
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x98
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 96 98
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 226 230
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDD98
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddd98
UTF-16 Dec	55357 56728
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F598
UTF-32 Hex	01F598
UTF-32 Dec	128408
Python Src	u"\U0001F598"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x96\x98"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDD98"