Meet the backhand index pointing left: medium-light skin tone โ the digital way to go โthat one, right thereโ but to the left. Itโs the classic callout finger for quote-tweets, reply chains, and captions that want you to read the previous line, as in โthis take โ.โ People use it to roast, to hype, to drop receipts, or to flirt with a playful โhim โ me.โ In group chats, it doubles as a gentle nudge toward rules, disclaimers, or the message your friend conveniently โdidnโt see.โ
On Apple devices, the emoji shows the back of a mediumโlight toned hand with a creamy beige gradient, index extended straight left, other fingers curled, and the thumb tucked along the middle finger; soft shading, a rounded nail, and a small wrist give it a 3D, sticker-like look. It feels a little sassier than a plain arrow because itโs a real gestureโperfect for sarcasm, dramatic emphasis, or ironic โnot me, that guy โโ energy. It also shows up in meme labels and story frames to steer attention to photos, sidebars, or poll options without typing a single word. Use it when you want to point, blame, brag, or beam a spotlightโno stage lighting required.
The White Left Pointing Backhand Index emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3446 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: | Light Brown White Left Pointing Backhand Index |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ผ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ผ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👈 🏼 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👈 🏼 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f448, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F448, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128072, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x88, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 88, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 210, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC48, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc48, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56392, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F448 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F448, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128072, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F448\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x88\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC48\uD83C\uDFFC" |
