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☝️ Index Pointing Up Emoji

The ☝️ Index Pointing Up emoji emphasizes an important point, signals 'one moment', or raises a question.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Index Pointing Up
Category
People & Body
Subcategory
Hand Single Finger
Unicode
U+261D U+FE0F
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The ☝️ Index Pointing Up emoji is used to emphasize a key statement, pause for a crucial point ('first of all...'), or signal holding up one finger. It brings polite authority and focus to key takeaways.

Tone
EmphaticAttentiveInstructiveClear
Quick Meaning

The ☝️ Index Pointing Up emoji emphasizes an important point, signals 'one moment', or raises a question.

Use Cases

How People Use ☝️

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Highlighting a crucial rule, tip, or takeaway

Highlighting a crucial rule, tip, or takeaway.

Pausing to make a single important distinction ('One more thing...')

Pausing to make a single important distinction ('One more thing...').

Drawing eyes upward to a title or pinned post

Drawing eyes upward to a title or pinned post.

Real Messages

☝️ Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for ☝️.

“Remember this key rule before starting ☝️”

“First of all, congratulations to the team ☝️”

“One important detail to keep in mind ☝️”

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Official Name

Index Pointing Up

Subcategory: Hand Single Finger

Aliases & Common Names

  • point up
  • one moment
  • finger up
  • index up

Keywords & Search Terms

  • index pointing up
  • point up
  • up
  • one
  • important
  • attention
  • takeaway
  • rule
Developer Reference

☝️ Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+261D U+FE0F
Code points
U+261D U+FE0F
UTF-8 bytes
0xE2 0x98 0x9D 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F
UTF-16
\u261D\uFE0F
HTML decimal entity
☝️
HTML hexadecimal entity
☝️
JavaScript escape
\u{261D}\u{FE0F}
CSS escape
\261D \FE0F
Python string
\u261D\uFE0F
Unicode Breakdown

Sequence Breakdown for ☝️

This emoji is composed of 2 Unicode characters joined together.

Step 1
☝
U+261DIndex Pointing Up
+
Step 2
VS16
U+FE0FVariation Selector-16 (Emoji Presentation)
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Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Index Pointing Up emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Index Pointing Up emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Index Pointing Up emoji in OpenMoji style

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The ☝️ Index Pointing Up emoji emphasizes an important point, signals 'one moment', or raises a question.