The backhand index pointing up: medium-light skin tone is the classic digital “see above, bestie” gesture—perfect for pointing at the message, receipt, or spicy take directly overhead. It’s a go-to in comment sections to co-sign someone else’s point (↑ this), to nudge readers toward a thread, or to say “one sec, point of order” without typing a whole paragraph. It can read earnest—like pointing to the sky in a thankful, blessed, or ‘God did’ vibe—or sarcastic, as in “the rules are right up there, champ.” On TikTok and Instagram, it pairs with captions and on-screen text like a director’s cue, basically yelling, “Eyes up here!”
On Apple/iOS, it looks like the back of a right hand in a warm medium-light beige gradient, index finger standing tall, other fingers curled into a soft fist, and the thumb tucked across with subtle knuckle lines and gentle shadows. The pose is clean and vertical, almost poster-ready for “Number One” moments, and it pops in DMs when you’re directing attention to the previous message or calling out the post above. People use it flirtatiously to say “that’s me” or “pick the one above,” and jokingly to pin blame (or credit) on whoever just spoke. In meme culture, it’s the quiet hype man for “receipts above,” “facts,” and “read the caption,” and it can double as a polite “hold up” finger when someone needs the floor. It’s basically the internet’s fingertip laser pointer—compact, sassy, and impossible to miss.
The White Up Pointing Backhand 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) | 3452 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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| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Light Brown 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F446, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128070, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x86, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 86, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 206, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC46, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc46, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56390, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F446 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F446, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128070, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F446\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x86\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC46\uD83C\uDFFC" |
