U+261C "☜" White Left Pointing Index Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☜
U+261C "☜" White Left Pointing Index is a typographic symbol depicting a simplified white hand with an extended index finger pointing to the left, commonly used in digital text to indicate direction, draw attention to preceding content, or serve as a visual cue in lists and instructions. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols block and is often employed in informal writing, user interfaces, and signage to suggest a non-verbal prompt for the reader to look or move in the leftward direction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+261C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White 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 0x9C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x261C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000261C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u261c |