U+261D White Up Pointing Index
U+261D 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. It has no designated width in East Asian texts. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+261D prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.
The CLDR project calls this character “index pointing up” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: finger, hand, index, point, pointing, this, up.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as monochrome character on conforming platforms. To enable colorful emoji display, you can combine it with Variation Selector-16: ☝️ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.
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 | 9757 |
| UTF-8 | E2 98 9D |
| UTF-16 | 26 1D |
| UTF-32 | 00 00 26 1D |
| URL-Quoted | %E2%98%9D |
| HTML hex reference | ☝ |
| Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ☠|
| Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 81 37 A5 33 |
| Adobe Glyph List | pointingindexupwhite |
Elsewhere
Complete Record
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| 1.1 (1993) | |
| WHITE UP POINTING INDEX | |
| — | |
| Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs | |
| Other Symbol | |
| Common | |
| Other Neutral | |
| Not Reordered | |
| none | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| ✘ | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| ✘ | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
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| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✔ | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| Any | |
| ✔ | |
| ✘ | |
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| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| 0 | |
| ✘ | |
| None | |
| — | |
| NA | |
| Other | |
| — | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| Yes | |
| Yes | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| Yes | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| Yes | |
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| Other | |
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| Other | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| ✘ | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| None | |
| neutral | |
| Not Applicable | |
| — | |
| No_Joining_Group | |
| Non Joining | |
| Emoji Base | |
| none | |
| not a number | |
| White Up Pointing Index | |
| R |