A classic "ahem, one thing" moment in emoji form, this hand shows the back of the hand with the index finger lifted straight up—aka the universal sign for "hold up" or "I have a point." On Apple/iOS, it’s a warm tan medium skin tone with soft 3D shading, a neat little fingernail visible on the raised finger, curled knuckles for the others, and a tidy thumb tucked in. The pose is crisp and vertical, like a tiny exclamation mark that learned manners. It looks instantly familiar—half classroom volunteer, half traffic controller for your group chat.
Online, it’s the go-to for pointing at the line above, saying "this ^," or parachuting into the convo with a polite-but-firm correction. It works for PSA energy, “per my last text” moments, or a humble interjection before you drop a micromonologue. Used with sarcasm, it becomes the “actually…” finger—annoying if you’re on the receiving end, glorious if you’re right. Drop it flirty to preface a coy question, or dramatic to signal a plot twist: one finger up, attention secured.
Culturally, it channels classroom vibes (teacher, pick me!), quick-service counters (“one sec!”), and Reddit upvote energy without the arrow. You’ll spot it in tweets and captions nudging people to scroll up for context, check the thread above, or revisit the receipts. It’s also a great beat-marker in stories and reels—tap, point, reveal. Small gesture, big timing.
The White Up Pointing Backhand 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) | 3453 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: | Olive Toned 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F446, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128070, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x86, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 86, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 206, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC46, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc46, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56390, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F446 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F446, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128070, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F446\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x86\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC46\uD83C\uDFFD" |
