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👆🏽 Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone Emoji

This is the medium skin tone variant of the 👆 backhand index pointing up emoji, commonly used for agreeing with the previous commenter in a chat thread ('this 👆')., directing eyes toward the photo or title above., referencing a pinned message..

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone
Category
People & Body
Subcategory
Hand Single Finger
Unicode
U+1F446 U+1F3FD
Emoji version
Emoji 1.0
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The 👆🏽 backhand index pointing up: medium skin tone emoji is the medium skin tone variant of 👆 backhand index pointing up. The 👆 Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji is widely used in chat threads and social comments to point toward the message, photo, or pinned announcement located directly above it. The skin tone modifies its visual appearance while maintaining its core meaning.

Tone
ReferencingDirectingAgreeingClear
Quick Meaning

This is the medium skin tone variant of the 👆 backhand index pointing up emoji, commonly used for agreeing with the previous commenter in a chat thread ('this 👆')., directing eyes toward the photo or title above., referencing a pinned message..

Use Cases

How People Use 👆🏽

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Agreeing with the previous commenter in a chat thread ('This 👆')

Agreeing with the previous commenter in a chat thread ('This 👆').

Directing eyes toward the photo or title above

Directing eyes toward the photo or title above.

Referencing a pinned message

Referencing a pinned message.

Real Messages

👆🏽 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 👆🏽.

“100% agree with what Sarah said 👆”

“Look at the photo in the main post 👆”

“Check out the headline above 👆”

Lookup Data

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Official Name

Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone

Subcategory: Hand Single Finger

Aliases & Common Names

  • backhand index pointing up
  • backhand index pointing up medium skin tone

Keywords & Search Terms

  • backhand index pointing up
  • backhand
  • index
  • pointing
  • up
  • hand
  • single
  • finger
  • person
  • gesture
  • body
  • people
Developer Reference

👆🏽 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F446 U+1F3FD
Code points
U+1F446 U+1F3FD
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x86 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD
UTF-16
\uD83D\uDC46\uD83C\uDFFD
HTML decimal entity
👆🏽
HTML hexadecimal entity
👆🏽
JavaScript escape
\u{1F446}\u{1F3FD}
CSS escape
\1F446 \1F3FD
Python string
\U0001F446\U0001F3FD
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for 👆🏽

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
👆
U+1F446Backhand Index Pointing Up
+
Step 2
🏽
U+1F3FDMedium Skin Tone
Variations

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Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
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CC BY 4.0
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OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Backhand Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone emoji in OpenMoji style

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This is the medium skin tone variant of the 👆 backhand index pointing up emoji, commonly used for agreeing with the previous commenter in a chat thread ('this 👆')., directing eyes toward the photo or title above., referencing a pinned message..