U+1F59A "🖚" Sideways Black Left Pointing Index Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖚
U+1F59A "🖚" Sideways Black Left Pointing Index is a graphical symbol depicting a solid, black hand silhouette with an extended index finger pointing to the left, rotated ninety degrees from a typical upright hand. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is classified as a "hand" or "pointer" glyph. This character is often used in digital contexts for directional signals, navigation cues, or to draw attention to preceding text, and it pairs visually with its right-pointing counterpart. While rarely supported in common fonts, it remains part of the Unicode standard for specialized or symbolic communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F59A |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Sideways Black 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 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD9A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F59A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd9a |
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 |