The index pointing up: medium-dark skin tone emoji is the digital equivalent of gently clearing your throat before dropping a Very Important Point. On Apple/iOS, it appears as a right hand viewed from the palm side (not the backhand version), with the index finger perfectly vertical and the other fingers curled in; the medium‑dark skin tone renders as a rich brown with soft gradients and a clean, sleeve‑free wrist. It’s crisp, straightforward, and instantly readable—like a neat little exclamation mark made of hand. The vibe ranges from “one sec” to “Actually…” to “Fun fact voice loading,” depending on the context and your level of sass.
In chats and captions, it often nudges people to look above—“receipts are up there, bestie”—or kicks off a thread with “First of all,” “PSA,” or a polite-but-firm correction. It doubles as a “We’re number one!” celebration, a classroom “I have a question” raise, and, for cricket fans, the classic umpire “OUT” signal. Sarcastically, it’s great for fact‑checking energy or for adding a delicate sprinkle of ‘per my last email.’ Paired with a wink or a cheeky line, it turns flirt-adjacent—like a tiny hand saying, “Quick question…” before the rizz begins.
The White Up Pointing Index emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3462 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+261D, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9757, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x98 0x9D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 98 9D, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 230 235, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x261D, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | 261d, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9757, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000261D 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 261D, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9757, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\u261D\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x98\x9d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u261D\uD83C\uDFFE" |
