U+1F5A3 "🖣" Black down Pointing Backhand Index Unicode Character

U+1F5A3 "🖣" Black down Pointing Backhand Index is a pictographic symbol that depicts a human hand with the back facing the viewer and the index finger pointing downward, typically rendered in a solid black silhouette. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and was added to the Unicode Standard as part of version 7.0 in 2014, serving as a directional indicator or a gesture for pointing to something below. Commonly used in digital communication and interfaces, it can emphasize downward direction, indicate a selection, or denote a location beneath the current context.

General Properties

Code Point	U+1F5A3
Version Added	7.0
Name	Black down 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 0xA3
UTF-16 Encoding	0xD83D 0xDDA3
UTF-32 Encoding	0x0001F5A3
C/C++/Java Escape	\ud83d\udda3

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