The backhand index pointing down: light skin tone is the universal internet gesture for “look down here, bestie.” It’s the go-to when you’re directing people to the next tweet in a thread, the caption with the juicy details, or the comment you absolutely need everyone to see. It carries big “receipts below” energy, and doubles as a dramatic mic-drop pointer when you want to spotlight the thing right under your message. You’ll see it in call-to-actions like “link below,” “details below,” or cheeky “read the comments.”
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand shown from the back, index finger extended straight downward with the other fingers curled in and the thumb tucked, rendered in a soft, peachy light skin tone. The style is glossy and rounded, with gentle shading on the knuckles and a slight wrist angle—no sleeve, just clean, 3D-ish gradients. It’s instantly recognizable as the “👇 but make it personalized” version.
Culturally, it thrives in threads, tutorials, and thirst-trap captions where creators point to on-screen text or the next slide. It can be sassy or supportive: sarcastic when dunking on the comment below, flirty when teasing “see what I said next,” or simply practical when corralling eyeballs to the instructions. Pair it with “THIS” or a siren emoji for emphasis, or stack a few for maximum “scroll, babe” urgency.
The White Down 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) | 2068 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 Down 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) | 1f447, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F447, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128071, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 87, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 207, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC47, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc47, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56391, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F447 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F447, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128071, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F447\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC47\uD83C\uDFFB" |
