The backhand index pointing down: dark skin tone is the internet’s trusty stagehand, pulling the curtain to reveal whatever’s right below—comments, captions, receipts, fine print, or the next tweet in the thread. It’s a dramatic cue for “see below,” often stacked as 👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿 when you really want eyes to travel down the screen. You’ll spot it in call-to-action posts (“comment below”), spicy clapbacks (“receipts down here”), and TikTok or IG captions nudging you toward links, rules, or that one crucial line people always miss. Used sarcastically, it screams This! Right! Here! at the very thing you want noticed, and yes, it can veer flirty depending on context—so handle with wink-level caution.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right-hand backhand view with a rich, deep brown skin tone: the index finger juts straight downward, the thumb rests to the side, and the other fingers curl in with soft, 3D shading. There’s a subtle gradient across the knuckles, a cropped wrist, and a slightly three-quarter perspective that makes the finger feel like it’s hovering over the text you’re about to roast or endorse. The look is clean, glossy, and unmistakably “👇🏿,” a visual bullhorn that says scroll, don’t stroll. It’s also a representation win—skin tone modifiers let you put your own vibe on the gesture while keeping the message loud and clear.
The White Down 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) | 3459 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Black White Down 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) | 1f447, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F447, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128071, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 87, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 207, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC47, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc47, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56391, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F447 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F447, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128071, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F447\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC47\uD83C\uDFFF" |
