U+1F597 "🖗" White down Pointing Left Hand Index Unicode Character

U+1F597 "🖗" White down Pointing Left Hand Index is a symbol depicting a left hand with the index finger extended and pointing downward, filled in white or outlined against a typical neutral background. This character belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block and is often used in digital contexts to indicate a downward direction, draw attention to content below a text, or signify a selection or gesture in user interfaces. Its design is a less common variant of the pointing hand emojis, providing a specific visual cue for downward pointing without the full color or shading of typical emoji representations, making it useful in plain text or stylized documents for directional or instructional purposes.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F597
Version Added	7.0
Name	White down Pointing Left Hand 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 0x96 0x97
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD97
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F597
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd97

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check	Yes
NFD Quick Check	Yes
NFKC Quick Check	Yes
NFKD Quick Check	Yes
Numeric Type	None
Numeric Value	NaN
Line Break	Ideographic
Script	Common
Script Extensions	Common
Indic Syllabic Category	Other
Vertical Orientation	Upright
Grapheme Base	Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break	Other
Word Break	Other
Sentence Break	Other