☝🏽
What ☝🏽 means
☝🏽 is the Index Pointing Up emoji with the medium skin tone applied — same meaning and uses, in the tone that looks like you.
A raised hand, showing the palm, with just the forefinger held up and the rest of the fingers tucked into the palm. It signifies a sense of being modest, wise, and thoughtful.
Read the full meaning and usage guide for ☝️ Index Pointing Up →
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › hand-single-finger
- Codepoints
U+261D U+1F3FD- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:point_up_tone3:Discord- Keywords
- finger, hand, index, medium skin tone, point, pointing, this, up
- Variant of
- ☝️ index pointing up · how tone modifiers work
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ☝🏽 Index Pointing Up: Medium Skin Tone or 🧑🧒🧒 Family: Adult, Child, Child?
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