U+1F59F "🖟" Sideways White down Pointing Index Unicode Character

U+1F59F "🖟" Sideways White down Pointing Index is a seldom used symbol from the Dingbats block, depicting a left pointing hand with the index finger extended downward and outlined in white against a filled background, giving it a silhouette appearance. Unlike the more common pointing emoji, this character lacks wide support across modern platforms and fonts, often rendering as a generic placeholder or a simple box. It falls outside the standard emoji set and is primarily intended for symbolic or decorative use in specialized typographic contexts, serving as a directional marker or a visual cue in older or niche digital documentation.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F59F
Version Added	7.0
Name	Sideways White down 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 0x9F
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDD9F
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F59F
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udd9f

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