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Technical information
| Symbol | ☝ | |
| Name | White up pointing index | |
| Unicode number | U+261D | |
| Category | Hand gesturesPointing hand symbols | |
| Description | The Unicode character ☝, or U+261D, is known as the "White Up Pointing Index". It is part of the "Miscellaneous Symbols" block and is categorized under the "Symbol, Other" category in the Unicode standard. This character is a pictorial representation of a human hand with the index finger pointing upwards. The color white in the name is to contrast it from the black version, but it doesn't necessarily dictate the actual color when rendered. This symbol is commonly used in digital contexts to signify the act of pointing at something above or to indicate a direction or selection. |
Encoding
| HTML Entity | ☝ | |
| HTML Entity (hex) | ☝ | |
| URL Escape Code | %E2%98%9D | |
| UTF-8 (hex) | 0xE2 0x98 0x9D | |
| UTF-8 (binary) | 11100010:10011000:10011101 | |
| UTF-16 | 0x261D | |
| UTF-32 | 0x0000261D |
Source Code
| C, C++, and Java | "\u261D" | |
| CSS Code | \261D | |
| JavaScript | "\u261D" | |
| Perl | \x{261D} | |
| Python 2 | u"\u261D" | |
| Python 3 | \u261D | |
| Ruby | \u{261D} |
Preview
This Unicode character looks like this ☝ in sentence and in bold like this ☝ and in italic like this ☝.
input-group
Font size:
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12px
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16px
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20px
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28px
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36px
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48px
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72px
CSS Property: font-weight
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HTML Forms and Input
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disabled input
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select
button
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Code examples in HTML and CSS
<span>☝</span>
span {
content: "\261D";
}The symbol in different fonts
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-apple-system
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Apple Color Emoji
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Arial
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BlinkMacSystemFont
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Courier New
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Georgia
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Droid Sans
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Helvetica
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Noto Sans
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Oxygen
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Roboto
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"Segoe UI"
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sans-serif
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Segoe UI Emoji
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Segoe UI Symbol
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system-ui
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Times New Roman
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Ubuntu
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Verdana