Backhand Index Pointing Down Emoji
What does the Backhand Index Pointing Down emoji mean?
The emoji shows a hand with the index finger pointing downward — the mirror-image counterpart of a backhand index finger pointing up.
This emoji is a mirrored version of the pointing your finger up gesture — the hand points the other way.
Like other pointing emojis, it’s used to highlight an important moment or indicate the direction or location of something you’re referring to. For example, you might use it to call out loud music from the neighbors downstairs.
Also Known As
- 👇 Pointing Down
Apple Name
- 👇 Backhand Index Finger Pointing Down
Unicode Name
- 👇 White Down Pointing Backhand Index
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Backhand Index Pointing Down emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
👇 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F447
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%91%87 |
| Punycode | xn--sp8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 87 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC47 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f447 |
| CSS | \01F447 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F447} |
| Perl | \x{1F447} |
| HTML hex | 👇 |
| HTML dec | 👇 |
Tags: backhand, backhand index pointing down, down, finger, hand, point, index, pointing
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Pointing hands