👈 Backhand index pointing left | Backhand index pointing left emoji

The backhand index pointing left emoji — Unicode name “backhand index pointing left” — belongs to the People & Body group on EmojiAll. You will most often meet it in messages about back of hand, pointing left and hand. Scored 55 out of 100, it falls in the Neutral range.

If you need emoji copy and paste across devices, Backhand index pointing left travels as plain text, so it pastes the same way on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.

1. Backhand index pointing left emoji attributes

Symbol: 👈
Name: Backhand index pointing left
English name: backhand index pointing left
Unicode code point: U+1F448
HTML entity: 👈
Decimal: 👈
Category: People & Body›Gestures
Keywords: back of hand, pointing left, hand, backhand, index, pointing
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2. Backhand index pointing left emoji meaning

The backhand index pointing left emoji is one of the 45 symbols collected in the Gestures subgroup of People & Body. Its meaning centers on back of hand, pointing left and hand, and that is what makes it usable across languages. It is a low-risk choice: the meaning is specific enough that readers rarely misread it.

In everyday chat, the backhand index pointing left (👈) usually appears alongside words about back of hand, pointing left and hand. A few words of text make the intent clearer than the symbol on its own.

3. Backhand index pointing left emoji sentiment

Neutral

55 / 100

Scored 55 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Neutral range. It is mostly descriptive, and the feeling comes from the words around it.

A higher score means a more positive feeling; scores near 50 are neutral.

4. Backhand index pointing left emoji examples

1Ask me anything about the project 👈
2Raising my hand for the question 👈
3Two of us are coming 👈

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