U+1FAF5 Index Pointing At The Viewer
U+1FAF5 was added in Unicode version 14.0 in 2021. It belongs to the block
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+1FAF5 prohibits a line break after it, if itβs followed by an emoji modifier.
The CLDR project calls this character βindex pointing at the viewerβ for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: point, you.
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
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 |
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NΒΊ | 129781 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F AB B5 |
UTF-16 | D8 3E DE F5 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 FA F5 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%AB%B5 |
HTML hex reference | 🫵 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 🫡 |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
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