Skin Tone Variants
About Backhand Index Pointing Right
Backhand Index Pointing Right is the Unicode character 👉 at codepoint U+1F449 in the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block of the Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Backhand Index Pointing Right
To use the Backhand Index Pointing Right symbol (👉) in HTML, insert the
entity 👉 directly into your markup. The decimal entity 👉 works in any HTML-serialised document.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\1F449';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u{1F449}' evaluates to 👉. In Python source, write '\U0001F449'.
The character encodes to F0 9F 91 89 as UTF-8 bytes and D83D DC49 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 128073.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.