U+1F598 "🖘" Sideways White Left Pointing Index Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖘
U+1F598 "🖘" Sideways White Left Pointing Index is a typographic symbol that depicts a leftward-pointing hand or finger, rendered as an unfilled or "white" outline, and oriented sideways rather than vertically. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, where it is classified as a hand symbol, and is used in specialized textual contexts such as diagrams, technical documentation, or early computer interfaces to indicate a direction, point to an item, or serve as a visual cue. This character is part of a historical set of pointer glyphs that predate widespread emoji usage, and its design often resembles a hand with the index finger extended.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F598 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Sideways White Left Pointing 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 0x98 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD98 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F598 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd98 |
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 |