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👆🏻” meaning: backhand index pointing up: light skin tone Emoji

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👆🏻Meaning and Description

The "Pointing Up👆🏻" emoji, also known as the "Index Finger Pointing Up" gesture, is a symbol that captures the essence of pointing, selection, or direction.

This emoji features a right hand with the back of the hand facing forward, with the index finger extended upward, while the other fingers and thumb are folded inside. The design of the 👆🏻 emoji's appearance may differ slightly depending on the platform you use, and you can choose from different skin tone options for this emoji to make it more personalized.

The gesture's origins can be traced back to the simple act of pointing, a universal human behavior used to indicate or emphasize something. 👆🏻 is a common way of indicating something or someone is above the speaker or the viewer. It can also be used to express preference, selection, or suggestion of an option among others. It can also be used to draw attention to a message💬, a link🔗, or an image🖼 that is attached below. Of course, it can also be regarded as a gesture indicating the one or the No.1🥇.

On social media, the 👆🏻 emoji can convey different meanings, such as pointing to something or someone above your post, directing your audience to check out something above your message, or expressing surprise or shock at something or someone above your reaction.

When you want to emphasize a point, make a selection, or provide direction, don't hesitate to use the versatile 👆🏻 emoji!
💡Extended reading and popular science

👆🏻 (backhand index pointing up: light skin tone) = 👆 (backhand index pointing up) + 🏻 (light skin tone)


The meaning of emoji symbol 👆🏻 is backhand index pointing up: light skin tone, it is related to backhand, backhand index pointing up, finger, hand, light skin tone, point, up, it can be found in emoji category: "👌 People & Body" - "👈 Pointing Hand".

👆🏻 is an Emoji modifier sequence, which is composed of two emojis, namely: 👆 (Emoji modifier base) and 🏻 (Emoji modifier). There are 5 types of skin tone Emoji modifiers, namely: 🏻, 🏼, 🏽, 🏾, 🏿. 👆 can be combined with these skin tone Emoji modifiers to form a new Emoji sequence, the following are examples of the combination:

👆🏻Examples and Usage

🔸 You can click the mouse arrow 👆🏻 on the red box in the upper right corner to close it.
🔸 Sure.It is on the next floor up. 👆🏻
🔸 👆🏻 = 👆 + 🏻

👆🏻Basic Information

Emoji: 👆🏻
Shortname: backhand index pointing up: light skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F446 1F3FB Copy
Decimal: ALT+128070 ALT+127995
Unicode Version: None
Emoji Version: 2.0 (2015-11-12)
Categories: 👌 People & Body
Sub Categories: 👈 Pointing Hand
Keywords: backhand | backhand index pointing up | finger | hand | light skin tone | point | up
Proposal: L2/07‑257, L2/09‑026, L2/14‑173

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