U+1F598 "🖘" Sideways White Left Pointing Index Unicode Character

U+1F598 "🖘" Sideways White Left Pointing Index is a typographic symbol that depicts a leftward-pointing hand or finger, rendered as an unfilled or "white" outline, and oriented sideways rather than vertically. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows block, where it is classified as a hand symbol, and is used in specialized textual contexts such as diagrams, technical documentation, or early computer interfaces to indicate a direction, point to an item, or serve as a visual cue. This character is part of a historical set of pointer glyphs that predate widespread emoji usage, and its design often resembles a hand with the index finger extended.