The backhand index pointing down: medium-dark skin tone is the internet’s go-to “psst, look down here” gesture—perfect for summoning eyes to a link, caption, pinned comment, or the bombshell receipts in your next reply. It’s equal parts traffic director and hype person: great for “details below,” “sign up here,” or “sound off in the replies.” In meme-speak, it can be dramatic (we’ve reached rock bottom), flirty (hit that like button… down there), or sarcastic (behold: my standards). It also shows up in price-drop jokes, recipe threads, and “read the thread before tweeting” energy.
On Apple/iOS, the hand is shown from the back with the index finger extended straight downward, the other fingers curled, and a rounded nail visible; subtle gradients give the medium-dark skin tone a warm, realistic look. The wrist has a slight bend, knuckles are defined, and the overall pose screams “this way, folks,” without saying a word. People recognize it instantly in Stories, Reels, and TikToks where creators point to on-screen text or captions living just below the fold. It’s the finger version of a neon arrow—clean, obvious, and surprisingly persuasive.
The White Down 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) | 3458 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: | Deeper Brown 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F447, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128071, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x87, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 87, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 207, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC47, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc47, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56391, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F447 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F447, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128071, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F447\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x87\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC47\uD83C\uDFFE" |
