The backhand index pointing right: dark skin tone is the ultimate digital nudge: a stylish rightward pointer that says โlook over hereโ without typing another word. Itโs perfect for calling out receipts in a thread, lining up a punchline, or doing the classic โthis you? ๐๐ฟโ move with surgical meme precision. People drop it in bios and captions to direct you to links, carousels, and the Next Slide drama; pair it with text and youโve basically built a neon arrow in emoji form. It also moonlights as flirty or bashful when teamed with the left-pointerโhello, the shy combo ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฟโor as a dramatic side-eye gesture when you need to point at a mess without naming names.
On Apple/iOS, this variant shows the back of a deep-brown right hand with the index finger extended straight to the right, other fingers tucked in, and the thumb curling across with soft 3D shading. Youโll spot rounded knuckles, subtle creases, and a smooth gradient that makes it feel slightly beveledโno visible fingernails since itโs the backhand view. It reads loud and clear in chats, DMs, and Stories as a modern โsee right there,โ from Tinder-era โswipe rightโ hints to tutorial threads and carousel breadcrumbs. Short version: if your text needs a spotlight to the right, this emoji is the stagehand doing a flawless cue.
The White Right Pointing Backhand Index emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2186 of 2393 |
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| 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: | Black White Right Pointing Backhand Index |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ฟ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ฟ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👉 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👉 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f449, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F449, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128073, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x89, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 89, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 211, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC49, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc49, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56393, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F449 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F449, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128073, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F449\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x89\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC49\uD83C\uDFFF" |
