Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji
Type :point_up: · People & body
Unicode name Backhand Index Pointing Up · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What 👆️ means
Pointing up, nearly always at the message above. The polite way to say "this, what they said" without retyping it.
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_up: Search terms
Also found by searching backhand, finger, hand, index, point, pointing.
Skin tones for 👆️
Backhand Index Pointing Up 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 Up is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F446
- HTML
- 👆
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F446}'
- CSS content
- "\1F446"
- Python
- '\U0001F446'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%91%86
Related emojis
:point_left: 👉️ :point_right: 👇️ :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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