U+261C White Left Pointing Index
U+261C was added in Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. It belongs to the block Miscellaneous Symbols in the Basic Multilingual Plane.
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its width in East Asian texts is determined by its context. It can be displayed wide or narrow. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+261C offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
The manicule, ☛, is a typographic mark with the appearance of a hand with its index finger extending in a pointing gesture. Originally used for handwritten marginal notes, it later came to be used in printed works to draw the reader's attention to important text. Though once widespread, it is rarely used today, except as an occasional archaic novelty or on informal directional signs.
Representations
| System | Representation |
|---|---|
| Nº | 9756 |
| UTF-8 | E2 98 9C |
| UTF-16 | 26 1C |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 1C |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%98%9C |
| HTML hex reference | ☜ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ☜ |
| Encoding: CP949 (hex bytes) | A2 D0 |
| Encoding: EUC_KR (hex bytes) | A2 D0 |
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 A5 32 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_JP_2 (hex bytes) | 1B 24 28 43 22 50 1B 28 42 |
| Encoding: ISO2022_KR (hex bytes) | 1B 24 29 43 0E 22 50 0F |
| Encoding: JOHAB (hex bytes) | D9 D0 |
| Adobe Glyph List | pointingindexleftwhite |
| digraph | <H |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| WHITE LEFT POINTING INDEX | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| Yes | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| Yes | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| None | |
| ambiguous | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Ideographic | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| White Left Pointing Index | |
| R |