Backhand index pointing up: light skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoon-style hand with a light skin tone, palm facing outward, with the index finger extended straight toward the top of the screen. This is a directional marker used to grab attention or indicate that the relevant information is located immediately above.

Usage Context

Widely used in digital messaging and social media threads to direct a reader’s focus to a previous post, a link, or a specific instruction. It acts as a non-verbal pointer, replacing phrases like 'look above' or 'see here.' It is frequently grouped with other directional hand signs like 👇 or 👈.

History

Part of the expansion of the Unicode hand sign library, this variant was added in 2015 to support the introduction of skin tone modifiers based on the Fitzpatrick scale. These finger-pointing icons trace their lineage back to early web dingbats and cursor icons used in document navigation long before smartphones.

Details

Glyph

👆🏻

Unicode

U+1F446 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f446_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC46;&#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.

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