Sideways Black Down Pointing Index refers to a proposed or discussed hand-symbol concept in the style of Unicode dingbats and early emoji candidate lists, rather than an emoji that became officially approved under this name. The idea fits the 2014-era interest in converting legacy pictographic symbols, pointing hands, and internet-friendly gesture icons into standardized emoji. It would likely have represented a filled or βblackβ index-finger hand turned sideways while pointing downward, functioning as a visual cue for βlook below,β βclick here,β βscroll down,β βthis,β or βpay attention.β People may have wanted it because pointing-hand symbols are useful for instructions, emphasis, captions, memes, and call-to-action messages.
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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.
