Index Pointing Up: Medium-dark Skin Tone

☝🏾 is the medium-dark skin tone version of ☝️ Index Pointing up. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them. ☝️ is an index finger pointing up. It means “one”, “wait”, or raising an important point.

See the default ☝️ Index Pointing up emoji and all skin tones

Skin tones

Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.

index pointing up

index pointing up: light skin tone

index pointing up: medium-light skin tone

index pointing up: medium skin tone

index pointing up: medium-dark skin tone

index pointing up: dark skin tone

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

CLDR short name: index pointing up: medium-dark skin tone
Codepoint: U+261D U+1F3FE
Hex: 261D 1F3FE
Emoji version: 1.0
Unicode version: 8.0
First released: 2015
Unicode group: People & Body
Unicode subgroup: hand-single-finger
Skin tone: medium-dark
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

finger · hand · index · medium-dark skin tone · point · pointing · this · up

How it looks

Index Pointing Up: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent 3D — Fluent 3D

Index Pointing Up: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent Color — Fluent Color

Index Pointing Up: Medium-dark Skin Tone — Fluent Flat — Fluent Flat

Your device

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Download as image

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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of ☝🏾. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.

Questions people ask

What does the ☝🏾 index pointing up: medium-dark skin tone emoji mean?: ☝🏾 is the medium-dark skin tone version of ☝️ Index Pointing up. It means exactly the same thing; the skin-tone modifier only changes how the person or hand is drawn, so people pick the tone that represents them. ☝️ is an index finger pointing up. It means “one”, “wait”, or raising an important point.
What is the Unicode codepoint for ☝🏾?: U+261D U+1F3FE.
When was the ☝🏾 index pointing up: medium-dark skin tone emoji released?: It was added in Emoji 1.0, published in 2015, alongside Unicode 8.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
How do I type ☝🏾 on my phone or computer?: On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “index pointing up”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy ☝🏾 from this page with one click.