Say hello to the digital “that one, right there ←.” This hand points left with confident, slightly sassy energy, perfect for calling out the previous message, linking to a receipt, or nudging someone to read the line above. It’s great for playful blame (“culprit is… ← me”), snappy clapbacks, or dramatic reveals in a comment thread. On social, it often doubles as a low-key arrow, guiding eyes to captions, side notes, and the thing you definitely shouldn’t miss.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll recognize it as the back of a right hand with the index finger extended left, the other fingers curled in, and subtle knuckle lines for depth. The medium-dark skin tone shows up as a warm, deep brown gradient with soft highlights—clean, glossy, and very iOS-core. No sleeve, no fuss; just that unmistakable backhand pose pointing left like a human signpost.
Culturally, it teams up with its right-pointing twin for the bashful “👉👈” meme, but solo it’s the go-to for “look over there,” “see previous,” or “rewind that take.” It can read flirty, sarcastic, or mock-solemn depending on the text—like a neon arrow, a teacher’s finger, or a giant foam finger, but make it emoji. Use it as a bullet, a reaction, or a cheeky stage direction when you want the audience to look left and laugh.
The White Left 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) | 3448 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 | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F448, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128072, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x88, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 88, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 210, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC48, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc48, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56392, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F448 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F448, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128072, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F448\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x88\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC48\uD83C\uDFFE" |
