Backhand index pointing left: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-toned hand shown from the back, with the index finger extended horizontally to the left. The design mimics a physical gesture used to direct someone's attention toward a specific item, text, or area on a screen.

Usage Context

Widely used in digital messaging to highlight text, draw attention to a link, or point toward other content within a conversation. It is often used to guide a reader’s eye across a screen or to emphasize a specific point made in a thread, frequently appearing alongside 👉🏿 or 👇🏿.

History

While the hand gesture has been a standard part of sign-posting in typography for centuries, the specific emoji version was standardized in Unicode 7.0 in 2014. The addition of skin tone modifiers followed in 2015, based on the Fitzpatrick scale, to allow for more diverse representation in global digital communication.

Details

Glyph

👈🏿

Unicode

U+1F448 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f448_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC48;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

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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