The backhand index pointing up: dark skin tone is that polite-but-urgent little tap on the shoulder in emoji form: “Excuse me, one quick thing…” On Apple/iOS, it’s a deep brown hand shown from the back, index finger straight up, the other fingers curled in, thumb tucked across, with soft gradients, rounded nails, and a slight right-leaning tilt that screams minimalist 3D gloss. It’s instantly recognizable as the classic “one moment” or “I have a point” gesture—clean, clear, and just a touch sassy.
Online, it’s used to flag corrections, drop fun facts, or deliver a tiny PSA before you launch into a thread. People also plop it next to a sentence to reference the post above—basically the human equivalent of “↑ this.” It shows up in memes as the “me, actually” finger, equal parts nerdy and bold; in flirty chats, it doubles as a coy “pick me” volunteer move. Add a sprinkle of irony and it becomes the gentle fact-checker—never yelling, just raising the most reasonable eyebrow in the room. It can even carry subtle upvote energy in group chats when you want to cosign without writing an essay.
The dark skin tone modifier grounds the gesture in real-life representation, letting you personalize the vibe and match your identity. It’s the go-to when you’re chiming in during chaotic comment sections, calling attention to a rule everyone is ignoring, or pointing followers to the line above your caption like a social media traffic cop. Think usher pointing you to Row 3000, but make it stylish and internet-friendly.
The White Up Pointing Backhand Index emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3455 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Black White Up Pointing Backhand Index |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👆🏿 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👆🏿 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👆 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👆 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f446, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F446, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128070, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x86, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 86, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 206, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC46, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc46, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56390, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F446 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F446, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128070, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F446\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x86\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC46\uD83C\uDFFF" |
