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sideways black down pointing index

Sideways Black Down Pointing Index

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In Microsoft Word, type 1F5A1 and press AltX; in GNOME, press CtrlShiftU, type 1f5a1, then Space or Enter. If 🖡 appears as a box, the selected font lacks its glyph. In a message, it points toward nearby text; alone, its target is unclear.

Text symbol

What 🖡 means

Use AltX in Word or CtrlShiftU in GNOME.

Microsoft Word's 2026 help says to type 1F5A1 and press AltX. GNOME's 2026 help says to press CtrlShiftU, type 1f5a1, then Space or Enter. If it appears as a box, the font cannot draw it. In HTML, use 🖡.

What does 🖡 mean in a message?

It points toward nearby text, but has no fixed reaction meaning.

Beside a link, label, or instruction, it can work as a “look here” marker. Sent alone, the hand leaves its target unclear; hand-gesture meanings can also vary across cultures, so use words when direction matters.

The design's documented lineage leads through Wingdings 2, a font set used to put pictographs into documents. The Wingdings family appeared in 1992. A 2011 Unicode proposal lists w-2073 in Wingdings 2's hand-symbol table; mapping tables associate that slot with 🖡. Unicode encoding lets the character travel without that font's private slot, though its drawn shape still depends on font support.

It reads like a document marker more than a familiar chat reaction.

Alone, it may leave the intended target or direction unclear.

Part of the collection

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What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

Attention cue: look at the item that follows.

Don't confuse it with

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👇
Backhand Index Pointing Down
A familiar down-pointing backhand; 🖡 is a sideways black text glyph.
☟
White Down Pointing Index
A white index points straight down; 🖡 points sideways and down.
⬇
Down Arrow
A geometric arrow, not a hand; clearer for literal direction.
🖟
Sideways White Down Pointing Index
🖟 is the same sideways down-pointing hand in outline. 🖡 is filled solid black.
🖣
Black Down Pointing Backhand Index
🖣 also points down and is filled black, but shows the back of the hand. 🖡 is seen from the side.

Combination ideas

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Points to the words that follow.
Points to the link underneath.
Up or down? Pick one.

Questions people ask

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Is 🖡 an emoji?

No. It is a text character without default emoji presentation; its appearance depends on font support.

Why does 🖡 show as a box?

The font cannot draw the character, so it displays a missing-glyph box. The text itself is still present.

Collections with 🖡

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👋Hand Emoji84 symbols

How to type or find 🖡

Search it as
pointing hand · black hand · hand pointer · down pointer · sideways pointer · wingdings · wingdings 2 · dingbat
Shows up in
Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
⎇Alt+XType 1F5A1, then AltX to get 🖡.
Windows
⊞Win+Rrun charmap for the full table, or use the emoji picker's Ω symbols tab (Win .).
macOS
⌃Control+⌘Command+␣SpaceOpen the character viewer and search “sideways black down pointing index”.
Linux
⎈Ctrl+⇧Shift+UType 1f5a1, then Enter or Space.
HTML
🖡
CSS
\1F5A1
Microsoft Word
2026 help: type 1F5A1, then press AltX.
GNOME/Linux
2026 help: press CtrlShiftU, type 1f5a1, then Space or Enter.
HTML
Use 🖡 in HTML, or the literal character in UTF-8 text.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🖡
HTML hex
🖡
CSS content
content: "\1F5A1";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%96%A1
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On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

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