Backhand index pointing down: light skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoonish hand with a light skin tone, positioned with the index finger extended and pointing directly downward. The palm faces away from the viewer, directing attention toward whatever is located beneath the text.

Usage Context

This emoji is a digital equivalent of a directional sign. It is frequently used in social media posts, newsletters, or chat threads to tell the reader to look at a link, an image, or a specific comment placed below. It serves as a visual shortcut for phrases like 'see below' or 'check this out.' It is often used in combination with 👉 for side-to-side navigation or ☝️ to direct attention upward.

History

While hand gestures have been part of digital communication for decades, this specific hand pose was added to the Unicode standard in 2014. It draws on the long-standing graphic design tradition of the 'manicule' or printer's fist—a pointing finger icon that has appeared in typography and marginalia since the Middle Ages to guide a reader’s eye across a page.

Details

Glyph

👇🏻

Unicode

U+1F447 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f447_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC47;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-single-finger

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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