U+261A "☚" Black Left Pointing Index Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☚
U+261A "☚" Black Left Pointing Index is a typographic symbol that depicts a solid black hand with its index finger extended and pointing directly to the left, often used in digital and print text to draw attention to a specific item, note, or direction on that side. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols block and has a long historical precedent in early computer character sets and traditional printing, where similar pointing hands were used as manicules to guide readers. In modern contexts, this character frequently appears in lists, instructional materials, or user interfaces as a visual cue to indicate a location, refer to a footnote, or suggest a swipe or navigation action towards the left.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+261A |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Left Pointing Index |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☚ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☚ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0x9A |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x261A |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000261A |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u261a |
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 |
| Pattern Syntax | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Rotated |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | Other |