U+1F446 "👆" White Up Pointing Backhand Index Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
👆
U+1F446 "👆" White Up Pointing Backhand Index is a pictorial representation of a human hand with the index finger pointing upward and the back of the hand facing the viewer, commonly classified as an emoji. It is often used in digital communication to indicate a direction, emphasize a point, or draw attention to content located above the text, such as a previous message or an image. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0 and is encoded in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, reflecting a modern need for expressive, gesture based symbols in electronic messaging and social media platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F446 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | White Up Pointing Backhand Index |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 👆 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 👆 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x86 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDC46 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F446 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udc46 |