Backhand Index Pointing Left emoji
Type :point_left: · #97 most-used emoji · People & body
Unicode name Backhand Index Pointing Left · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 👈️ means
Pointing left, back at something already said, or at the person beside you in the photo. "This one 👈".
How to type 👈️ without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :poin
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 👈️ from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:point_left: Search terms
Also found by searching backhand, finger, hand, index, left, point.
Skin tones for 👈️
Backhand Index Pointing Left comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 👈️ in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 👈🏻 light 👈🏼 medium-light 👈🏽 medium 👈🏾 medium-dark 👈🏿 dark 👈️ in HTML, CSS and code
Backhand Index Pointing Left is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F448
- HTML
- 👈
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F448}'
- CSS content
- "\1F448"
- Python
- '\U0001F448'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%91%88
Related emojis
:point_right: 👆️ :point_up: 👇️ :point_down: ☝️ :point_up_2: 🫵 :point_forward: 🫰 :hand_with_index_finger_and_thumb_crossed: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: 🖖 :vulcan: 🤞 :fingers_crossed: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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