Backhand Index Pointing Left: Medium-Dark Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Backhand Index Pointing Left: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji mean?
A medium-dark-skinned hand with the thumb raised and the index finger pointing to the left — great for indicating direction or drawing attention to an important point.
Left-pointing index finger emoji with a dark (brown) skin tone. It displays correctly only on platforms that support this skin-tone variant.
This emoji is often used when someone wants to highlight an important point in their message. It can also indicate direction — for example, to point or turn left — and can replace the word "left".
Unicode Name
- 👈🏾 Backhand Index Pointing Left: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Backhand Index Pointing Left: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
👈🏾 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F448 U+1F3FE
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%91%88%F0%9F%8F%BE |
| Punycode | xn--pn8hte |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 88 F0 9F 8F BE |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC48\uD83C\uDFFE |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f448\U0001f3fe |
| CSS | \01F448 \01F3FE |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F448}\u{1F3FE} |
| Perl | \x{1F448}\x{1F3FE} |
| HTML hex | 👈🏾 |
| HTML dec | 👈🏾 |
Tags: backhand, backhand index pointing left, finger, hand, index, medium-dark skin tone, point, left, pointing
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Pointing hands