U+1F59C "🖜" Black Left Pointing Backhand Index Unicode Character

U+1F59C "🖜" Black Left Pointing Backhand Index is a graphical symbol that depicts a stylized left hand with the index finger extended to the left, rendered in a solid black or filled silhouette style. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was introduced in Unicode 7.0 as part of a set of five directional hand gesture symbols, often used in digital interfaces or text to indicate direction, selection, or reference to content on the left, similar to a cursor or pointing icon. Its design is intentionally neutral and abstract, making it suitable for both formal and informal contexts, though its use is less common than more widely supported emoji or text symbols like the white pointing index.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F59C
Version Added	7.0
Name	Black Left 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 0x96 0x9C
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD9C
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F59C
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd9c

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