Backhand index pointing right

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Shortcode
:point_right:
Shortcode
:backhand_index_pointing_right:
Unicode
U+1F449
HTML
👉
CSS
\1F449
JavaScript
"\u{1F449}"
URL
%F0%9F%91%89

backhandfingerhandindexpointpointingright

What ๐Ÿ‘‰ means

A finger pointing right. ๐Ÿ‘‰ directs attention to a link, a name or whatever comes next.

"๐Ÿ‘‰ Link in bio" and "๐Ÿ‘‰ you" are typical. With ๐Ÿ‘ˆ it makes the shy, fingers-poking gesture.

๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿ‘Œ is a well-known sexual innuendo, so it can turn a harmless point into a dirty joke.

Facts

Backhand index pointing right 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_right: or :backhand_index_pointing_right:. People also look for it with words like โ€œbackhandโ€, โ€œfingerโ€, โ€œhandโ€, or โ€œindexโ€.

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

Twemoji (X, Discord)

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