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👇️Backhand Index Pointing Down Emoji
The backhand index pointing down emoji 👇️ carries the codepoint U+1F447 U+FE0F and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to People & Body → Finger Pointing.
What 👇️ backhand index pointing down means
Pointing at something - a link above, a reply below, the person who said the stupid thing. 👉👈 used together became the shy, nervous gesture in text posts, and 🫵, added in 2021, points straight out of the screen at you. 🖕 reached Unicode in 2014, in the batch imported from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts.
Unicode tags this one backhand, down and finger and files it under People & Body → Finger Pointing.
Copy variants
backhand index pointing down carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 👇️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 👇U+1F447backhand index pointing down
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F447 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👇️ | |
| HTML decimal | 👇️ | |
| CSS | \1F447\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F447}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F447\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC47\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f447}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F447}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F447}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%87%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 87 EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC47 FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Rh++4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128071 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 👇️ emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 👇️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “backhand index pointing down”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “backhand”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f447and Enter. - HTML — paste
👇️.
How 👇️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 👇️Apple
- 👇️Segoe
- 👇️Noto
- 👇️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 👇️ backhand index pointing down emoji mean?+
👇️ is the backhand index pointing down emoji, tagged backhand, down and finger. Pointing at something - a link above, a reply below, the person who said the stupid thing. 👉👈 used together became the shy, nervous gesture in text posts, and 🫵, added in 2021, points straight out of the screen at you. 🖕 reached Unicode in 2014, in the batch imported from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts.
What is the Unicode code for 👇️?+
backhand index pointing down is U+1F447 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 👇️, in CSS \1F447\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F447}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👇️ emoji added?+
backhand index pointing down got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Finger Pointing in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👇️ backhand index pointing down.