U+261B "☛" Black Right Pointing Index Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☛
U+261B "☛" Black Right Pointing Index is a typographic symbol depicting a solid black hand with an extended index finger pointing to the right, designed to draw the viewer's attention toward specific text or elements on a page. It belongs to the Dingbats block in the Unicode standard and is often used in digital and print contexts as a directional cue, a bullet point alternative, or a prompt for action, such as indicating a link or next step. This character has historical roots in medieval manuscripts and early printing, where manicules (pointing hands) served as margin notes to highlight important passages.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+261B |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Black Right 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 0x9B |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x261B |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000261B |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u261b |
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 |