Index pointing up

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Related

👈👉👆🖕👇🫵
Shortcode
:point_up:
Shortcode
:index_pointing_up:
Unicode
U+261D
HTML
☝
CSS
\261D
JavaScript
"\u{261D}"
URL
%E2%98%9D%EF%B8%8F

fingerhandindexpointpointingthisup

What ☝️ means

One finger raised. ☝️ means "one moment," "listen up," or the number one.

It makes a point, asks for a pause, or claims first place. ☝️🤓 is a meme for a smug "um, actually" correction.

Unlike 👆, the palm faces the viewer, so it reads as making a point rather than pointing at the message above.

Facts

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: or :index_pointing_up:. People also look for it with words like “finger”, “hand”, “index”, or “point”.

Timeline

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

Design history

Google (Noto)

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

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. index pointing up, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. index pointing up, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  3. index pointing up, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20172017
  4. index pointing up, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018
  5. index pointing up, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

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

people & body · Unicode 6.0