Backhand index pointing left: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoonish hand with a medium-light skin tone, showing the back of the hand while extending the index finger toward the left. It acts as a visual signpost, drawing the viewer's attention to text or images placed before it.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to call attention to a previous message, a link, or a specific point made in a conversation. It serves as a digital equivalent to a physical gesture, often working alongside 👉🏼 to direct focus across a screen or page.

History

Pointing finger icons have been a staple of digital communication since the early days of the web, serving as a modern replacement for the classic 'manicule' or printer's fist, which dates back to the Middle Ages. The medium-light skin tone variant was introduced in 2015 as part of the effort to expand human diversity in emoji sets via the Unicode skin tone modifier system.

Details

Glyph

👈🏼

Unicode

U+1F448 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f448_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC48;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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