U+1F59E "🖞" Sideways White Up Pointing Index Unicode Character

U+1F59E "🖞" Sideways White Up Pointing Index is a graphical symbol that depicts a hand with the index finger pointed upward, oriented horizontally rather than vertically, and rendered as a white outline on a typical display background. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block, added in Unicode 7.0, and is often used in digital communication to indicate direction, emphasize a point, or suggest a link or idea to the side, functioning similarly to a pointer or cursor metaphor in informal text. Despite its abstract design, it remains a niche character with limited support across fonts and operating systems, making it less common in everyday usage compared to its vertical counterparts.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F59E
Version Added	7.0
Name	Sideways White Up 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 0x9E
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD9E
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F59E
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd9e

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