👇Backhand Index Pointing Down Emoji
Generally, 👇 means “look down” or “below”. It’s used to direct attention to something lower.
The 👇 emoji is a finger pointing downwards.
- Unicode
- U+1F447
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :point_down:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👇 Backhand Index Pointing Down emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Backhand Index Pointing Down emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F447 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your backhand index pointing down looks like to the person on the other side.
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 Down 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 Down emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :point_down:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the backhand index pointing down, code point U+1F447.
How to type the 👇 Backhand Index Pointing Down emoji
No picker to hand? The backhand index pointing down can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Backhand Index Pointing Down emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Backhand Index Pointing Down emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around backhand index pointing down 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
Who sent the backhand index pointing down and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👇 means in other countries
A directional marker pointing at what follows, closer to punctuation than a gesture aimed at a person.
points to a link, image, or reply typed right after it, standard low-key usage
can tease “down bad” or lower mood, tone comes from the words around it
Before you send it: Safe as a plain pointer; check the surrounding words if you want it to land as a joke rather than literal.
What 👇 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F447, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
👇 vs 🫵 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Backhand Index Pointing Down
Code: U+1F447 · added 2010
Shortcode: :point_down:
Generally, 👇 means “look down” or “below”.
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 Down 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+1F447 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 EA8E, SoftBank E22F.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Backhand Index Pointing Down was approved as U+1F447 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.