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U+261D · WHITE UP POINTING INDEX

White Up Pointing Index

  • CodepointU+261D
  • NameWHITE UP POINTING INDEX
  • Emoji nameindex pointing up
  • Decimal9757
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+261D (☝) is WHITE UP POINTING INDEX, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “index pointing up”, in the People & Body group, subgroup hand-single-finger. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+261D U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style. It accepts skin-tone modifiers (U+1F3FB–U+1F3FF).

How to type ☝

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 98 9D3 bytes
UTF-16261D1 code unit
UTF-320000261D4 bytes
HTML decimal☝
HTML hex☝
CSS\261Din content: "…"
JavaScript\u261D
JSON\u261D
Python\u261D
Python\N{WHITE UP POINTING INDEX}by name
Java / C#\u261D
C / C++\u261Duniversal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{261D}
Go\u261D
Ruby\u261D
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9757)
URL-encoded%E2%98%9Dpercent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
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