Backhand index pointing up

What 👆 means

A finger pointing up. 👆 means "see above" or "this," pointing at the message or post before it.

Reply with 👆 to agree with a previous message without retyping it, or to remind a group of something already said. In work chat it saves a long "+1 to the above."

Facts

Backhand index pointing up 👆 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_up_2: or :backhand_index_pointing_up:. People also look for it with words like “backhand”, “finger”, “hand”, or “index”.

Timeline

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

Design history

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

people & body · Unicode 6.0