👈🏿
backhand index pointing left: dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F448 1F3FF
Description
A hand pointing left with a dark skin tone, typically used to indicate direction or draw attention to something on the left.
Group:
People & Body > hand-single-finger
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, directional, sometimes used for emphasis or a 'look here' gesture.
Backstory
The pointing hand emojis were introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010), and the various skin tone modifiers (Fitzpatrick scale) were added in Unicode 8.0 (2015), allowing for greater diversity in emoji representation.
Usage Examples
- Indicating direction: 'The entrance is this way 👈🏿'
- Highlighting text: 'See the important note here 👈🏿'
- Referring to something previous: 'As mentioned earlier 👈🏿'
- Drawing attention in a post: 'New item just dropped! Check it out 👈🏿'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Straightforwardly indicates 'to the left' or 'look here at the left'.
East Asian culture:
Similar directional use; less likely to imply rudeness than a pointing finger directly at someone.