Backhand index pointing right: light skin tone Emoji
People
A cartoonish right hand with the index finger extended and pointing to the right, rendered in a light skin tone. The hand is shown from the back, clearly indicating a specific direction or drawing attention to content adjacent to it.
Usage Context
This is a go-to tool for directing a reader’s gaze toward a link, a call to action, or a specific piece of text in a message. It is frequently used in digital marketing and casual texting to highlight important points or to provide emphasis, similar to how one might use 👈🏻 to point left or 👇🏻 to point down.
History
Pointing fingers were some of the earliest icons used in digital communication, drawing inspiration from 'manicule' printer symbols—the old-school pointing hands found in medieval manuscripts and early advertising. This specific version was standardized for digital platforms as emoji support expanded to include varied skin tones in 2015.
Details
Glyph
👉🏻
Unicode
U+1F449 U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f449_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-single-finger
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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