Meet the digital "look over there" sign: the backhand index pointing left: light skin tone (๐๐ป). Itโs the go-to move for calling out receipts in the chat, pointing at the previous message, or delivering a playful "this you?" with just the right sprinkle of sass. People use it for flirty framing (you ๐๐ป me ๐), dramatic accusations, or to highlight a link, username, or hot take thatโs sitting to the left of your comment. It can be deadpan, sarcastic, or lovingly chaoticโperfect for meme captions, subtweets, and any moment when text needs a literal pointer.
On Apple devices, this shows a pale, peach-toned right hand from the back, with soft 3D shading, a gently curved index finger aimed left, the thumb tucked in, and the other fingers foldedโclean edges, rounded knuckles, and the wrist cropped with no sleeve. Visually, itโs immediately recognizable as a โhey, pay attention to that thing over thereโ gesture, often paired with its right-pointing twin to bracket a word for maximum drama. In timelines and comments, it doubles as a comedic stage directionโcue the accusatory point, cue the gasp, cue the receipts. Use it when you want your message to point, nudge, or roast without typing a single extra word.
The White Left 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) | 2067 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: | White White Left Pointing Backhand Index |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ป |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ป |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👈 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👈 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f448, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F448, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128072, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x88, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 88, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 210, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC48, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc48, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56392, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F448 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F448, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128072, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F448\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x88\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC48\uD83C\uDFFB" |
