The index pointing up: dark skin tone emoji is your digital “A-hem, one quick thing” gesture—perfect for dropping a fact, adding a footnote, or pausing the chaos so you can make your point. It doubles as the classic “Number one!” sign, a gentle “Hold up,” or that reply-guy energy when someone starts a sentence with “Actually…” and proceeds to deliver a correction with confidence. You’ll see it used to nudge people to read the line above, to announce a PSA, or to kick off a dramatic monologue: “First of all—☝🏿.” It also shows up in sports and faith-adjacent posts as a simple point skyward, like giving credit above or celebrating a big W.
On Apple devices, this looks like a realistic 3D hand with smooth shading in a deep brown tone, other fingers curled, and the index finger standing straight like a tiny exclamation mark. No sleeve, no props—just a clean, right-hand pose angled slightly with subtle highlights that make it look glossy and unmistakably iOS. It fits perfectly in meme formats for “fun fact incoming,” “small correction but important,” or the teacher voice moment when you stop the room with one raised finger. Use it flirtatiously to say “one question tho…,” sarcastically to nitpick a take, or dramatically to signal the start of a TED Talk in your comments section.
The White Up Pointing Index emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2499 of 2393 |
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| 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Black 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+261D, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9757, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x98 0x9D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 98 9D, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 230 235, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x261D, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | 261d, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9757, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000261D 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 261D, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9757, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\u261D\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x98\x9d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u261D\uD83C\uDFFF" |
