Index pointing up: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A hand with a medium skin tone, showing a closed fist with a single index finger pointing directly upward. The back of the hand is visible, and the finger is angled slightly to the right.

Usage Context

Widely used to grab attention, indicate that someone has a question, or signal the number one. It is often placed above a block of text to emphasize a point or direct the reader's gaze, functioning similarly to a directional sign or an exclamation. It is frequently grouped with 👆 or ☝️ to denote importance or to act as a placeholder for a 'wait a minute' gesture.

History

This emoji traces back to the classic 'printer's fist' or manicule, a typographical mark used in manuscripts since the Middle Ages to draw attention to specific passages. It was formalized in the Unicode standard to maintain continuity with legacy Japanese mobile phone character sets that used these gestures for navigation and signaling.

Details

Glyph

☝🏽

Unicode

U+261D U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u261d_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

☝&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-single-finger

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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