The backhand index pointing up: light skin tone is the internet’s polite tap on the shoulder—“hey, look up!” It’s the go-to for calling attention to the line above, hyping a pinned comment, or nudging followers toward the bio like a tiny traffic cop. In chats, it doubles as the “one sec, important point incoming” move, and in snarkland it carries prime “um actually” energy for gentle corrections and footnote-level receipts. Creators love dropping it next to floating text in Reels and TikToks, basically turning it into a mini teleprompter finger.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a soft, pale-cream hand with the back facing you, index finger standing straight up, other fingers curled inward, and the thumb tucked across—no sleeve, just smooth 3D shading and tidy knuckle lines. The light skin tone modifier gives it that fair, ivory look while keeping the same clean silhouette you’d spot instantly in comments or captions. It can read earnest (“see above”), dramatic (“THIS ↑”), even flirty-awkward (“me, I volunteer”), and sometimes sneaks into sportsy “we’re number one” jokes. Basically, it’s the internet’s elevator button to the message right above your eyeballs.
The White Up Pointing Backhand Index emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2187 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | White White Up Pointing Backhand 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) | 1f446, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F446, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128070, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x86, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 86, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 206, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC46, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc46, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56390, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F446 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F446, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128070, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F446\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x86\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC46\uD83C\uDFFB" |
