Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone Emoji
An upward-pointing hand with the back facing the viewer, depicted in a medium skin tone. It serves as a non-verbal cue to highlight a point or to direct someone’s gaze upward in a text, often used in group chats to reference an earlier comment or to vote on an option.
Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone is a fully-qualified emoji encoded in Unicode 8.0 , and included in Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
This emoji is part of the People & Body and is grouped with other Hand Single Finger emojis. Part of the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block.
Copy and paste the Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone emoji:
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Codes & Encoding for the Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone Emoji
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Codepoint
U+1F446 U+1F3FD✓ Copied -
HTML (decimal)
👆🏽✓ Copied -
HTML (hex)
👆🏽✓ Copied -
CSS
\1F446\1F3FD✓ Copied -
JavaScript
\u{1F446}\u{1F3FD}✓ Copied -
URL-encoded
%F0%9F%91%86%F0%9F%8F%BD✓ Copied -
Shortcode
:backhand_index_pointing_up_medium_skin_tone:✓ Copied - Unicode block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
How to Type the Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone Emoji
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iOS Use the emoji keyboard (globe icon → smiley)
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Android Use Gboard's emoji keyboard, or type the emoji's name
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Windows Win + . opens the emoji picker
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macOS Ctrl + Cmd + Space opens the character viewer
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Linux Ctrl + Shift + e then codepoint, or use IBus picker
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Web Paste the character or use an emoji-picker library
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Slack Type :backhand_index_pointing_up_medium_skin_tone: (autocompletes to the emoji)
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Discord Type :backhand_index_pointing_up_medium_skin_tone: (autocompletes to the emoji)
Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone Emoji on Different Platforms
Skin Tone Variants of Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone
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How to Use the Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone Emoji
- Look at that mountain 👆🏽, so beautiful.
- He pointed to the clock 👆🏽 to show the time.
- She indicated the speaker 👆🏽 in the crowd.