U+1F59A "🖚" Sideways Black Left Pointing Index Unicode Character
Unicode Version 18.0
Source: Browser Default
U+1F59A "🖚" Sideways Black Left Pointing Index is a graphical symbol depicting a solid, black hand silhouette with an extended index finger pointing to the left, rotated ninety degrees from a typical upright hand. It belongs to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is classified as a "hand" or "pointer" glyph. This character is often used in digital contexts for directional signals, navigation cues, or to draw attention to preceding text, and it pairs visually with its right-pointing counterpart. While rarely supported in common fonts, it remains part of the Unicode standard for specialized or symbolic communication.
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Sideways White Right Pointing Index
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U+1F59B
Sideways Black Right Pointing Index
General Properties
Code Point
U+1F59A
Name
Sideways Black Left Pointing Index
Encodings
HTML Decimal Encoding
🖚
HTML Hex Encoding
🖚
UTF-8 Encoding
0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x9A
UTF-16 Encoding
0xD83D 0xDD9A
UTF-32 Encoding
0x0001F59A
C/C++/Java Escape
\ud83d\udd9a
Unicode Properties
Numeric Value
NaN
Script Extensions
Common