The backhand index pointing right: light skin tone is your digital nudge-nudge, as if to say, โpeep thisโ or โthe tea is over there.โ Itโs the go-to move for directing attention to the next message, a link, a screenshot of receipts, or the spicy part of a thread. In meme land, it often plays the role of the dramatic prosecutor: this you? ->, ratio ->, or next slide -> for carousel posts. It can be flirtatious tooโโyou -> meโ energyโor used ironically to point at your own chaos. Pair it with the left-pointing version to frame a word or name for that internet-arguer aesthetic.
On Apple devices, this emoji shows the back of a pale-peach hand with the index finger extended to the right, the other fingers curled softly, and the thumb tucked in. The shading is smooth and slightly glossy, with rounded fingertips and visible knuckle contours, giving it a friendly, almost 3D feel from a flat, side-on angle. It reads instantly as a directive gestureโclean, precise, and less shouty than a bold arrow. Whether youโre guiding followers to โsee below,โ calling out a plot twist, or setting up a punchline, this pointer is the subtle but unmistakable traffic cop of your texts and timelines.
The White Right 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) | 1994 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: | White White Right Pointing Backhand Index |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| 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) | 1f449, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F449, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128073, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x89, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 89, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 211, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC49, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc49, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56393, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F449 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F449, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128073, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F449\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x89\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC49\uD83C\uDFFB" |