Backhand Index Pointing Right: Medium-Dark Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Backhand Index Pointing Right: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji mean?
The backhand index pointing to the right — a medium-dark skin‑tone hand with the thumb raised and the index finger extended — is used to show direction or draw attention to an important point.
A dark-skinned hand pointing to the right. It closely resembles the yellow version of the emoji. This skin tone is commonly seen among people from warmer countries.
Use the 👉🏾 emoji when you want to highlight part of a message, emphasize importance, or indicate direction. It's also a handy stand-in for the word 'right' in written instructions.
Unicode Name
- 👉🏾 Backhand Index Pointing Right: Medium-Dark Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Backhand Index Pointing Right: Medium-Dark Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
👉🏾 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F449 U+1F3FE
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%91%89%F0%9F%8F%BE |
| Punycode | xn--pn8hve |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 89 F0 9F 8F BE |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC49\uD83C\uDFFE |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f449\U0001f3fe |
| CSS | \01F449 \01F3FE |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F449}\u{1F3FE} |
| Perl | \x{1F449}\x{1F3FE} |
| HTML hex | 👉🏾 |
| HTML dec | 👉🏾 |
Tags: backhand, backhand index pointing right, finger, hand, index, medium-dark skin tone, point, pointing, right
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Pointing hands