The index pointing up: medium skin tone emoji is your digital “ahem” button—perfect for one-sec pauses, hot takes, and the classic I have a point to make moment. It cues everything from number one and small correction energy to hey, look above this message, PSA time, and even a post-score sky point that reads like gratitude or Amen vibes. In group chats it can be gently bossy, hilariously pedantic, or delightfully nerdy—think well actually, but make it friendly.
On Apple devices, it’s a medium-brown hand with soft, 3D-style gradients, palm facing forward, index finger standing tall, and thumb tucked in a natural curve. You’ll notice the smooth rounded edges, a neatly visible fingernail, and no sleeve or cuff—just the hand, clean and to the point. The silhouette is instantly recognizable and more front-of-hand than its cousin, the backhand index pointing up, which shows the knuckles.
Online, this emoji plays hype man and hall monitor: used to start a thread, flag a fun fact, or nudge a tiny correction without sounding like a supervillain. It’s great for sarcastic announcements (Before you go… ☝🏽), flirty raise-my-hand moments, or pointing users to text, links, or receipts posted above. Pair it with eyes, a sparkle, or a megaphone for extra look up here drama, or drop it solo to punctuate an unpopular opinion incoming.
The White Up Pointing Index emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3461 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: | Olive Toned White Up Pointing Index |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+261D, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9757, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x98 0x9D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 98 9D, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 230 235, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x261D, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | 261d, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9757, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000261D 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 261D, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9757, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\u261D\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x98\x9d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u261D\uD83C\uDFFD" |
