A raised index finger with the back of the hand showing, this emoji says: hold up, one quick note, or hey, look up there. In chats and comment threads, itโs the go-to for pointing at the line above, calling out a tiny correction, or adding a footnote with big main-character energy. It also doubles as a polite ahem for know-it-all moments and a playful me! when youโre volunteering yourself or dropping a hot take. Sarcastically, it delivers well, actually vibes, or that teacher-voice PSA when youโre about to clarify something painfully obvious.
On Apple/iOS, the medium-dark skin tone shows as a warm, deep brown hand with soft gradient shading, curved knuckle creases, and a neat, light nail on the straight-up index finger. The other fingers are curled in, thumb tucked, and the perspective is the back of the hand angled slightly forwardโclean, rounded, and very tappable-looking. Itโs perfect for pointing to a caption, a rule you already said three times, or your pinned postโaka read the thing above. Think: one more thing energy, classroom raise-hand nostalgia, and a smooth way to guide your followers without screaming in all caps.
The White Up Pointing Backhand 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) | 3454 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Deeper Brown White Up Pointing Backhand Index |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐พ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐พ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👆 🏾 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👆 🏾 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f446, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F446, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128070, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x86, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 86, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 206, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC46, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc46, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56390, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F446 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F446, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128070, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F446\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x86\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC46\uD83C\uDFFE" |
