Backhand Index Pointing Left: Dark Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Backhand Index Pointing Left: Dark Skin Tone emoji mean?
A dark-skinned hand with the thumb raised and the index finger extended to the left — ideal for pointing out a direction or drawing attention to an important detail.
The darkest version of this emoji features the index finger turned to the left and a smiley rendered in a deep brown skin tone, commonly used to represent people of African descent.
This emoji has several uses. Most often it stands in for the word "left" or "to the left". It’s also frequently used as a directional indicator, and can serve as a marker to emphasize the importance of an item in a list — like saying, “It must be done.”
Unicode Name
- 👈🏿 Backhand Index Pointing Left: Dark Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Backhand Index Pointing Left: Dark Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
👈🏿 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F448 U+1F3FF
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%91%88%F0%9F%8F%BF |
| Punycode | xn--qn8hre |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 88 F0 9F 8F BF |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC48\uD83C\uDFFF |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f448\U0001f3ff |
| CSS | \01F448 \01F3FF |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F448}\u{1F3FF} |
| Perl | \x{1F448}\x{1F3FF} |
| HTML hex | 👈🏿 |
| HTML dec | 👈🏿 |
Tags: backhand, backhand index pointing left, dark skin tone, finger, hand, index, point, left, pointing
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Pointing hands