The backhand index pointing left: medium skin tone is the digital equivalent of a dramatic stage cueβ"ahem, look over there." Itβs a right hand seen from the back with the index finger extended to the left, perfect for pointing at the message above, the receipt you just dropped, or the friend youβre subtly putting on blast. In chats and captions, it doubles as a cheeky nudge, a visual hyperlink, or a petty arrow when youβre feeling spicy. Pair it with a hot take, and suddenly your previous text becomes the main character.
On social feeds, itβs a go-to for callouts, quote-tweet pointers, and meme setups like βthis guy π.β Itβs also half of the shy-fingers combo (ππ), where this left pointer plays the bashful counterpart for flirty, awkward, or βsoooβ¦ maybe?β vibes. People use it sarcastically to dunk on bad takes, sweetly to highlight shout-outs, or dramatically to point at screenshots like an attorney in a courtroom meme.
On Apple/iOS, the emoji shows a right hand with medium-tan shading, a soft gradient across the knuckles, and a neat, slightly glossy finish. You see the back of the hand, the index finger jutting left, the thumb curled inward, and the other fingers tucked with visible knuckle lines and a small nail on the indexβclean, minimal, unmistakably pointing. No sleeve, just a natural wrist curve and smooth shading that makes it pop against light or dark backgrounds.
The White Left 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) | 3447 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned White Left Pointing Backhand Index |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ππ½ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ππ½ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👈 🏽 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👈 🏽 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f448, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F448, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128072, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x88, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 88, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 210, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC48, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc48, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56392, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F448 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F448, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128072, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F448\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x88\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC48\uD83C\uDFFD" |
