Backhand index pointing down: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A cartoonish hand depicted in a medium skin tone, extending its index finger to point directly downward. The hand is shown from the back, mirroring the natural orientation of a person gesturing toward something below them.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to tool for digital navigation. Users drop it in social media captions or email threads to direct the reader’s attention to links, images, or important text situated below the post. It is the modern version of a literal finger pointing at a notice, functioning similarly to 👈 or 👉 but focused on vertical page layout.
History
While pointing gestures have existed as long as human communication, this specific character arrived as part of the expansion of skin tone modifiers in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. It evolved from the standard yellow pointing finger to allow users to better represent their own hands in chat and messaging apps.
Details
Glyph
👇🏽
Unicode
U+1F447 U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f447_1f3fd:
HTML Entity
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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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