Index Pointing Up emoji
Type :point_up_2: · People & body
Unicode name Index Pointing Up · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What ☝️ means
An index finger pointing up. Making a point, one moment, or the actually gesture in physical form.
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_2: Search terms
Also found by searching finger, hand, index, point, pointing, this.
Skin tones for ☝️
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
Index Pointing Up is a sequence of 2 codepoints, which is why pasting only the first one renders something else. Use the whole thing.
- Unicode
- U+261D U+FE0F
- HTML
- ☝️
- JavaScript
- '\u{261D}\u{FE0F}'
- CSS content
- "\261D \FE0F"
- Python
- '\u261D\uFE0F'
- URL-encoded
- %E2%98%9D%EF%B8%8F
Related emojis
:point_up: 👈️ :point_left: 👉️ :point_right: 👇️ :point_down: 🫵 :point_forward: 🫰 :hand_with_index_finger_and_thumb_crossed: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: 🖖 :vulcan: 🤞 :fingers_crossed: 🤘 :metal: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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