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Hand pointing to the left Emoji

👈 Backhand index pointing left

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👈 Emoji meaning

This way! Pointing direction, note, message.

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👈 Meaning

Right this way! Trigger finger shows to the left. Is meant to point in a certain direction, indicate something or mark the important part of a message.

Examples

Look to the left! 👈
Do you mean this spot? 👈
The entrance is over there. 👈

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Backhand index pointing left

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Backhand index pointing right

Backhand index left vs right; both indicate pointing, just in opposite directions.

Backhand index pointing left

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Backhand index pointing up

Backhand index left vs up; all backhand indices are similar and confused with one another.

Backhand index pointing left

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Index pointing at the viewer

Index pointing at viewer vs pointing left; all index gestures can be used to highlight someone in chat.

Same Shape

Backhand index pointing left

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Pinching hand vs pointing; both use thumb and index finger, shape may look like a pointing gesture.

Variants

Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Backhand index pointing left” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ left + pointing

Keywords removed

- backhand index pointing left

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ backhand index pointing left

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ backhand + finger + hand + index + point

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