Index Pointing Up Emoji
What does the Index Pointing Up emoji mean?
Here is a hand with the index finger raised — usually used to signify the number one or to draw attention.
This emoji shows a raised hand with curled fingers and an extended index finger, usually rendered in the standard yellow tone and not tied to any nationality.
It commonly signals confidence in what’s being said, the certainty of a conclusion, or the importance of a topic. It can also be used to indicate the number 1. Don’t confuse it with the thumbs down, which has a different meaning.
Also Known As
- ☝️ Pointing Up
- ☝️ Secret
Apple Name
- ☝️ Index Finger Pointing Up
Unicode Name
- ☝️ White Up Pointing Index
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Index Pointing Up emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
☝️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+261D U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%98%9D%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--e4h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 98 9D EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u261D\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u261D\uFE0F |
| CSS | \261D \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{261D}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{261D}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ☝️ |
| HTML dec | ☝️ |
Tags: finger, hand, index, index pointing up, point, UP, pointing, this
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Pointing hands