U+1F449 White Right Pointing Backhand Index

U+1F449 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block U+1F300 para U+1F5FF Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs in the U+10000 para U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Otro símbolo and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F449 prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.

The CLDR project calls this character “dorso de mano con índice a la derecha” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: dedo, derecha, índice, mano.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 👉︎ Se puede modificar la apariencia del carácter si se le añade un modificador de emoyi. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.