Emoji
(WHITE LEFT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX): meaning and Unicode code
Meaning of the emoji
(WHITE LEFT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX), Unicode code, HTML entity, and usage examples. Copy the symbol with one click.

Information about emoji WHITE LEFT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
- Unicode Name
- WHITE LEFT POINTING BACKHAND INDEX
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F448
- Category
- Gestures
- Subcategory
- Single Finger
- Slug
- point_left
Meaning and description of emoticon 
depicts a hand with the back facing the viewer, the index finger pointing to the left. Classified under People & Body in Unicode.
in chat conveys pointing to the left, an emphasis on a neighboring object, and simple visual navigation โ "look here to the left" or "here's the needed item." It's most often combined with โฌ
๏ธ,
, or
, and in messages it appears as "The important part is currently on the left
" and serves as a convenient cue for redirecting attention to a neighboring element. A finger pointing left often means not a literal gesture but a direction for quick navigation.
Usage Examples 
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :point_left: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :point_left: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :point_left: | |
| HTML Dec | 👈 | |
| HTML Hex | 👈 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F448"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F448 | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDC48 | |
| Perl | \x{1F448} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F448} | |
| Punycode | xn--tp8h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%91%88 | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 88 |
