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 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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