Skin Tone Variants
Index Pointing Up: Medium-light Skin Tone is the Unicode character โ๐ผ at codepoint U+261D in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). Click the character above to copy it to your clipboard โ or use one of the
encodings below to embed it in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python or plain text.
Technical Reference
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How to Use Index Pointing Up: Medium-light Skin Tone
To use the Index Pointing Up: Medium-light Skin Tone symbol (โ๐ผ) in HTML, insert the
entity ☝🏼 directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\261D';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u261D' evaluates to โ๐ผ. In Python source, write '\u261D'.
The character encodes to E2 98 9D as UTF-8 bytes and 261D as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9757.
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.