👆🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone

Unicode lists 👆🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone among the pointing gestures in the People & Body group. People send it when the subject is backhand, finger, hand and index. Unicode also files it under light skin tone, point, pointing and up, which shows how widely it is read.

You can drop 👆🏻 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Emotions and Feelings. It joined the standard with Emoji 1.0 in 2015, so support on current devices is reliable. Its code point is U+1F446 U+1F3FB.

• 👆🏻 works as a one-character reply when backhand is the subject.
• Fits messages about backhand, finger, hand and index.
• Often seen near 👉🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Right: Light Skin Tone, 👆 Backhand Index Pointing up and 🖕 Middle Finger.

• 👆🏻🫵 – Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone and Index Pointing at the Viewer
• 👆🏻👈 – Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone with Backhand Index Pointing Left
• 👆🏻👉 – Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone plus Backhand Index Pointing Right
• 👆🏻☝️ – Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone and Index Pointing up
• 👆🏻🖕 – Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone with Middle Finger
• 👆🏻👇 – Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone plus Backhand Index Pointing Down

Easy to mix up with 👉🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Right: Light Skin Tone, 👆 Backhand Index Pointing up or 🖕 Middle Finger. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.