U+1F449 U+1F3FE
👉🏾 Backhand index pointing right: medium-dark skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Single Finger Gestures
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 8.0 (2015)
- Emoji version
- 1.0 (2015)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 👉🏾 emoji means
A hand with the index finger pointing right. «This one», «over here», «read what follows».
Standard for drawing the eye to a link or a line below. Paired with 👈 it became a meme for shyness — the two fingers tapping together.
Chat examples
What 👉🏾 is made of
This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.
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👉
backhand index pointing right
U+1F449 -
🏾
skin tone
U+1F3FE
Will your readers see 👉🏾
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 👉🏾 emoji is used
The 👉🏾 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how backhand index pointing right: medium-dark skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 👉🏾 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Skin tone · Gender
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
Unicode CLDR 48