👆Backhand Index Pointing Up Emoji
Generally, it just means “look up there! ” or “pay attention to that.
The 👆 emoji is basically pointing upwards with your index finger.
- Unicode
- U+1F446
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :point_up_2:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👆 Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 7 of them.
Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the backhand index pointing up as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji skin tones
👆 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :point_up_2:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the backhand index pointing up, code point U+1F446.
How to type the 👆 Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the backhand index pointing up as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around backhand index pointing up for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👆, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👆 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 👆 means in other countries
Mostly used to nod at the message above it, so it stays functional rather than personal in almost every setting.
shorthand for “see what they said” or “agreeing with the previous message”
points to a ticket number or instruction just posted, purely procedural
Before you send it: Reads fine in any tone; swap for words only if the thread already has ambiguity about who it’s aimed at.
What 👆 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the backhand index pointing up lands changes how it is taken.
👆 vs 🫵 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Backhand Index Pointing Up
Code: U+1F446 · added 2010
Shortcode: :point_up_2:
Generally, it just means “look up there!
Unicode name: Index Pointing at the Viewer
Code: U+1FAF5 · added 2021
Shortcode: :index_pointing_at_the_viewer:
Generally, it means “you” in a critical or pointing way.
Where the 👆 Backhand Index Pointing Up emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F446 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👆 existed there as
KDDI au EA8D, SoftBank E22E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Backhand Index Pointing Up was approved as U+1F446 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👆 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.