Backhand index pointing down

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Shortcode
:point_down:
Shortcode
:backhand_index_pointing_down:
Unicode
U+1F447
HTML
👇
CSS
\1F447
JavaScript
"\u{1F447}"
URL
%F0%9F%91%87

backhanddownfingerhandindexpointpointing

What ๐Ÿ‘‡ means

A finger pointing down. ๐Ÿ‘‡ means "look below": a link, a thread, comments or more details.

Creators use it heavily: "Full recipe ๐Ÿ‘‡" or "Tell me in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡." Stacked as ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿ‘‡ it signals a thread or an urgent link. It fits neutral settings, including work.

Facts

Backhand index pointing down ๐Ÿ‘‡ is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand single finger. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :point_down: or :backhand_index_pointing_down:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbackhandโ€, โ€œdownโ€, โ€œfingerโ€, or โ€œhandโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
  2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. backhand index pointing down, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. backhand index pointing down, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. backhand index pointing down, Google (Noto) design from 20222022
  4. backhand index pointing down, Google (Noto) design from 20242024

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. backhand index pointing down, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. backhand index pointing down, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Unicode 6.0