🖕🏻 Middle Finger: Light Skin Tone

The 🖕🏻 Middle Finger: Light Skin Tone emoji belongs to the pointing gestures, filed by Unicode under People & Body. It usually appears in messages about finger, hand, light skin tone and middle.

🖕🏻 fits messaging apps, social networks and anywhere a short visual cue helps. 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+1F595 U+1F3FB.

• 🖕🏻 on its own already flags the topic: finger.
• Fits messages about finger, hand, light skin tone and middle.
• Often seen near 👆🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone, 🖕 Middle Finger and 👇 Backhand Index Pointing Down.

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

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