Backhand index pointing right: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoonish right hand with a medium-dark skin tone, extending a single index finger to point toward the right side of the screen. The skin tone is part of the Fitzpatrick scale modifier system, allowing for more inclusive representation.

Usage Context

Used constantly in digital messaging to draw the reader's attention to a link, an image, or a specific piece of text sitting to the right. It acts as a visual signpost, often used alongside emojis like 👉 or 👇 to guide navigation through long social media posts or promotional content.

History

While the basic pointing finger has been around since the early days of Unicode, the ability to modify the skin tone was added in 2015 with Unicode 8.0 to move beyond the default yellow tone and better reflect the diversity of global internet users.

Details

Glyph

👉🏾

Unicode

U+1F449 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f449_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC49;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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.

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