The index pointing up: medium-light skin tone emoji is your digital “ahem, one quick thing” moment. It’s perfect for flagging a key point, directing someone to read the line above, or declaring you’ve got exactly one take left in you. Online, it often pairs with nerd face for that iconic “☝🏼🤓 actually…” pedant energy, but it can also be playful—like a gentle PSA, a teacherly correction, or a hype-y “we’re number one!” sports chant. You’ll also see it used to tease a reveal (peek at the text above), to ask a quick question in a thread, or to drop a final mic-drop fact.
On Apple devices, this emoji is a 3D-style hand in a medium-light beige tone with soft gradients, subtle knuckle creases, and a neatly defined fingernail on the raised index. The palm faces forward with the index finger straight up, the other fingers curled in—clean, rounded Apple shading that screams “polished UI.” It gives strong “excuse me, one sec” vibes, but can flip sarcastic when paired with receipts or hot takes. Culturally, it nods to classroom hands, public speakers, and the classic “heavenward” gesture in photos, making it useful for inspirational captions or dramatic announcements. Use it to guide, to correct, to celebrate, or to deliver that one crucial detail everyone missed.
The White Up Pointing Index emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3460 of 2393 |
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| 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: | Light Brown White Up Pointing 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) | 261d, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+261D, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9757, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x98 0x9D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 98 9D, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 230 235, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x261D, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | 261d, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9757, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000261D 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 261D, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9757, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\u261D\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x98\x9d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u261D\uD83C\uDFFC" |
