The backhand index pointing right: medium-dark skin tone is your digital “psst, look over there” finger, ideal for steering eyes to links, receipts, or the next slide in a carousel. It’s the go-to for captions like “details 👉” or the spicy “the door 👉” when someone needs to exit stage left, politely or not. With the medium-dark skin tone, it doubles as a bit of personalization and representation, making that callout feel more you.
In meme-land, it teams up with its left-pointing twin for the bashful “👉👈” combo—peak shy, flirty, or “can I ask you something…?” energy. It also plays the prosecutor in “this you?” posts, pointing at screenshots, quotes, or evidence parked to the right of your text. On social platforms, you’ll see it lining up checklists, directing to polls, or nudging followers toward the bio link like a tiny usher with attitude.
Apple’s version shows the back of a warm brown hand with a soft gradient, index finger extended to the right, thumb cocked upward, and the other fingers curled neatly under. The styling is clean and slightly dimensional, with rounded nail detail, gentle knuckle creases, a bare wrist cutoff (no sleeve or accessories), and a subtle angle that feels natural without shouting 3D. Recognizable at a glance, it sits like a pointing signpost in text—subtle but bossy. Use it sincerely to highlight important info, or drop it sarcastically when you’re lining up a clapback, a “read the rules,” or a friendly nudge to scroll.
The White Right 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) | 3451 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: | Deeper Brown White Right 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) | 1f449, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F449, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128073, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x89, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 89, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 211, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC49, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc49, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56393, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F449 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F449, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128073, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F449\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x89\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC49\uD83C\uDFFE" |
