Backhand Index Pointing Up: Dark Skin Tone Emoji
What does the Backhand Index Pointing Up: Dark Skin Tone emoji mean?
Back view of a dark-skinned hand with the index finger raised — used to indicate direction or draw attention to an important point.
This is the darkest skin tone version of the hand with the index finger pointing up. It exactly matches the gesture: all fingers curled into a fist with the index finger extended straight and pointing vertically upward.
This gesture typically signals affirmation. It can also be used to draw the other person's attention back to something just mentioned, so you don’t need to repeat it. People often use this emoji instead of words like “up,” “higher,” “in the sky,” “high,” or “above.”
Unicode Name
- 👆🏿 Backhand Index Pointing Up: Dark Skin Tone
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Backhand Index Pointing Up: Dark Skin Tone emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
👆🏿 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F446 U+1F3FF
Shortcodes
- works in Emojipedia
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%91%86%F0%9F%8F%BF |
| Punycode | xn--qn8hne |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 86 F0 9F 8F BF |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC46\uD83C\uDFFF |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f446\U0001f3ff |
| CSS | \01F446 \01F3FF |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F446}\u{1F3FF} |
| Perl | \x{1F446}\x{1F3FF} |
| HTML hex | 👆🏿 |
| HTML dec | 👆🏿 |
Tags: backhand, backhand index pointing up, dark skin tone, finger, hand, point, UP, index, pointing
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Pointing hands