U+261D WHITE UP POINTING INDEX
U+261D was added to Unicode in version 1.1 (1993). It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols in the Basic 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 a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+261D behaves as Emoji Base regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The CLDR project labels this character “index pointing up” for use in screen reading software. It assigns additional tags, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: finger, hand, index, index pointing up, point, up.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ☝️ 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.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9757 |
| UTF-8 | E2 98 9D |
| UTF-16 | 26 1D |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 1D |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%98%9D |
| HTML-Escape | ☝ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | â |
| Adobe Glyph List | pointingindexupwhite |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| WHITE UP POINTING INDEX | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| None | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| ✘ | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| ✘ | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
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| ✔ | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
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| NA | |
| Other | |
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| ✘ | |
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| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
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| White Up Pointing Index | |
| None | |
| Neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Emoji Base | |
| None | |
| not a number | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| R |