U+1F599 Sideways White Right Pointing Index
U+1F599 was added in Unicode version 7.0 in 2014. 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. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F599 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The manicule, β, 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 |
|---|---|
| NΒΊ | 128409 |
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 96 99 |
| UTF-16 | D8 3D DD 99 |
| UTF-32 | 00 01 F5 99 |
| URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%96%99 |
| HTML hex reference | 🖙 |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | Γ°ΕΈββ’ |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 7.0 (2014) | |
| SIDEWAYS WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX | |
| β | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| β | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| β | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
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| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| Any | |
| β | |
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| β | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| β | |
| None | |
| β | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| Yes | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| Yes | |
| β | |
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| Other | |
| β | |
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| β | |
| β | |
| Other | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| β | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| β | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| Sideways White Right Pointing Index | |
| U |