backhand index pointing up: medium skin tone Emoji

The backhand index pointing up: medium skin tone emoji represents a person, body part, gesture, or human activity — this category is deliberately broad and detailed so that messaging can represent people, professions, and gestures with more accuracy and inclusivity than earlier, more limited emoji sets allowed.

Category context: The People & Body category is Unicode's largest emoji group, covering body parts, hand gestures, family compositions, professions, and activities — many of which support optional skin-tone modifiers to represent human diversity.

Cataloged under Hand Single Finger within the People & Body category, backhand index pointing up: medium skin tone is the 563rd of 2418 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 1 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, this specific version includes a skin-tone modifier, meaning it is built by combining a base emoji with one of the five Fitzpatrick-scale skin-tone components introduced in Unicode 8.0. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F446 U+1F3FD.

💡 Good to know: Many People & Body emoji support skin-tone modifiers (added in Unicode 8.0, 2015) — if this specific emoji has tone variants, they'll be shown as related emoji below.