Backhand index pointing down: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A hand with a dark skin tone extending its index finger to point directly downward. It mimics the gesture of someone directing attention to text, an image, or a link located below their message.
Usage Context
Widely used in social media and chat apps to guide readers to content placed beneath a post, such as a caption, a call-to-action button, or a reply thread. It is the natural counterpart to ☝️ and is frequently used to emphasize specific information without needing extra words.
History
The basic hand-pointing gesture has been a staple of digital communication since the early days of message boards and forums. Skin tone modifiers were added to the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of an industry-wide push to make digital representation more inclusive and reflective of diverse user bases.
Details
Glyph
👇🏿
Unicode
U+1F447 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f447_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
����
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-single-finger
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.
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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