The backhand index pointing down (medium skin tone) is the ultimate digital stagehand, cueing everyone to look below for the good stuff. On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand with the back facing you, index finger extended straight down, the other fingers curled in, soft rounded knuckles, and a smooth tan gradient that gives it that polished Apple sheen—no sleeve, just a subtle wrist curve. It’s unmistakable at a glance: simple, bold, and basically screaming, “Psst, eyes down here.”
You’ll see it everywhere when someone wants you to check the caption, read the comments, or find the next message in a thread—“recipe below,” “details in replies,” “link’s under this.” Influencers deploy it like a traffic cone for attention, while group chats use it to point at a follow-up text, a price list, or that one friend’s chaotic reply. It’s the internet equivalent of sticking a neon Post-it under your nose, but make it cute.
Meme-wise, it’s a Swiss Army finger: used for “this you? ⬇️” callouts, gentle dunks, and ratio bait. It goes flirty when paired with thirst captions (down bad culture, anyone?), or sarcastic when someone says “observe rock bottom ⬇️.” People also use it as a faux downvote vibe, to nudge a scroll, or to spotlight a punchline hiding in the comments. In short, it’s equal parts helpful tour guide and shady hype man, pointing the timeline exactly where you want it to go.
The White Down 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) | 3457 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 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F447, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128071, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 87, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 207, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC47, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc47, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56391, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F447 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F447, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128071, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F447\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC47\uD83C\uDFFD" |
