🫵️ Index pointing at the viewer emoji

What is 🫵️ called?

🫵️ is called the Index pointing at the viewer emoji.

What does 🫵️ mean?

🫵 points outward toward the viewer and means “you,” your turn, direct attention, selection, accusation, challenge, or a personal call to action.

The foreshortened fingertip makes it more direct than sideways pointing hands. Depending on tone, it can feel encouraging, playful, demanding, or confrontational.

Other meanings

You, your turn, chosen person, direct address, recruitment, challenge, blame, a playful poke, or telling the reader to act.

Example Usage

You are the next person to present 🫵

We need your idea on the team 🫵

More details

Officially named index pointing at the viewer. Its code point is U+1FAF5, introduced in Emoji 14.0. It supports five skin-tone modifiers.

Variants

Related emoji

Hand gestures emojis

• 👋️ Waving hand
• 🤚️ Raised back of hand
• 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed
• ✋️ Raised hand

Visual description

A hand points straight out from the screen, with the index fingertip enlarged by perspective and the curled fingers behind it.

Default colour is yellow, with five skin-tone variants. The frontal angle distinguishes it from left, right, up, and down pointers.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.