Backhand index pointing left: light skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoonish hand seen from the back, featuring a light skin tone and a rigid index finger extended to the left. The finger serves as a directional indicator, drawing attention to text or images placed to the left of the message.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to tool for directing a reader’s eye toward a specific link, a preceding post, or a key point in a long message. It functions like a digital signpost and is frequently used alongside 👉🏻 to frame text or call out specific details in a conversation.

History

Hand gestures in digital communication evolved from early ASCII art arrows used on bulletin board systems to guide users through text-heavy menus. This specific design was added to the Unicode standard to provide a human-centric way to navigate increasingly visual mobile interfaces.

Details

Glyph

👈🏻

Unicode

U+1F448 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f448_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC48;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository