Meet the backhand index pointing left: medium-light skin tone — the digital way to go “that one, right there” but to the left. It’s the classic callout finger for quote-tweets, reply chains, and captions that want you to read the previous line, as in “this take ←.” People use it to roast, to hype, to drop receipts, or to flirt with a playful “him ← me.” In group chats, it doubles as a gentle nudge toward rules, disclaimers, or the message your friend conveniently “didn’t see.”
On Apple devices, the emoji shows the back of a medium‑light 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 it’s a real gesture—perfect for sarcasm, dramatic emphasis, or ironic “not me, that guy ←” 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 spotlight—no 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown White Left 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) | 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" |
