Index Pointing at the Viewer Emoji
What does the Index Pointing at the Viewer emoji mean?
A hand drawn with its index finger pointed directly at the viewer, a clear visual shorthand for “you.” Famously used in army recruitment posters to grab attention and make the message feel personal.
A yellow hand emoji showing the index finger pointing directly at the viewer. The hand is clenched into a fist with the index finger extended and the palm held parallel to the ground.
This gesture works like saying “Hey, you!” and is commonly used to grab a user’s attention. You’ll often find it in ads, newsletters, and banners. In chats it can appear as a playful threat or simply replace the word “you” (you).
Apple Name
- 🫵 Index Pointing at the Viewer
Unicode Name
- 🫵 Index Pointing at the Viewer
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Index Pointing at the Viewer emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🫵 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1FAF5
Shortcodes
- works in Discord, Slack
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%AB%B5 |
| Punycode | xn--n39h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | f0 9f ab b5 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \ud83e\udef5 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001faf5 |
| CSS | \01FAF5 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1FAF5} |
| Perl | \x{1FAF5} |
| HTML hex | 🫵 |
| HTML dec | 🫵 |
Tags: index pointing at the viewer, point, you, at, finger, hand, index, pointing, poke, viewer
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Pointing hands