What ☜ means
A manicule is a hand mark that guides the reader’s eye. In medieval and early modern books, readers drew these hands in the margins to mark noteworthy passages or clarify a page’s structure. Printers later brought the same attention cue into typography.
Part of the collection
Related characters
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Combination ideas
3Finger-gun 'ayyy' face pointing left.
Points in from both sides at the key word.
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Questions people ask
1Why does ☜ show as a box on some devices?
Because that device's fonts have no glyph for it. The character is still correct and still copies correctly — the box is a missing glyph, not a broken character.
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👈Backhand Index Pointing Left6 forms
☚Black Left Pointing Index
☞White Right Pointing Index
←Leftwards Arrow
☟White Down Pointing Index
⬅️Left Arrow
🖘Sideways White Left Pointing Index
🖚Sideways Black Left Pointing Index
🖜Black Left Pointing Backhand Index
🠴Leftwards Finger-Post Arrow
🡰Wide-Headed Leftwards Medium Barb Arrow
🯁Left Third White Right Pointing Index
🯂Middle Third White Right Pointing Index
🯃Right Third White Right Pointing Index
☛Black Right Pointing Index
¦Broken Bar
°Degree Sign
■Black Square
□White Square
▢White Square With Rounded CornersCollections with ☜
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How to type or find ☜
- Also called
- manicule · marginal hand · pointing hand
- Search it as
- index hand · left pointing hand · pointer symbol
- Shows up in
- Anything that takes text · its shape is whatever your font draws
Windows (Word)
Windows
HTML
☜CSS
\261CCodes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
☜
HTML hex
☜
CSS content
content: "\261C";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%E2%98%9C
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On screen
1
Code points
1
JS .length
3
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.