Backhand index pointing left: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoonish hand seen from the back, with the index finger extended horizontally to the left. The skin tone is rendered in a medium-dark shade to provide representational diversity in digital communication.

Usage Context

This emoji acts as a directional pointer, often used to draw the reader's attention to text, a link, or another image placed to the left of the message. It is a digital equivalent of a finger pointing at a specific item on a screen. It is frequently paired with 👈 to emphasize a point or used alongside 👇 to direct someone toward a specific comment or reply.

History

Pointing hand gestures were foundational elements of early web design, dating back to the 'hand' cursor icon used in early graphical user interfaces to signify a clickable link. This specific backhand version was integrated into the Unicode standard to provide a clear, non-verbal way to navigate multi-column layouts and inline text flows. Skin tone variations were later added in 2015 to allow for greater user personalization.

Details

Glyph

👈🏾

Unicode

U+1F448 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f448_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC48;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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