U+1F448 White Left Pointing Backhand Index
U+1F448 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the Supplementary Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F448 prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.
The CLDR project calls this character “backhand index pointing left” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: backhand, finger, hand, index, left, point, pointing.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 👈︎ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The manicule, ☛, is a typographic mark with the appearance of a hand with its index finger extending in a pointing gesture. Originally used for handwritten marginal notes, it later came to be used in printed works to draw the reader's attention to important text. Though once widespread, it is rarely used today, except as an occasional archaic novelty or on informal directional signs.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 128072 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 91 88 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DC 48 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F4 48 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%91%88 |
| HTML hex reference | 👈 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 👈 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 94 39 D0 36 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 6.0 (2010) | |
| WHITE LEFT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| Yes | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| None | |
| wide | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Emoji Base | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| White Left Pointing Backhand Index | |
| U |