White Right Pointing Index
White Right Pointing Index has no standard Windows Alt code. Copy the character directly, or use its HTML entity or Unicode value instead.
- Alt code
- None
- HTML entity
- ☞
- Unicode
- U+261E
About this symbol
The pointing hand is called a manicule. Medieval and Renaissance readers drew little hands in the margins of books to flag passages worth finding again, often with elaborate cuffs. Printers later cast it as type, and it was the ancestor of the bullet in lists.
Unicode facts
- Official name
- WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX
- Also called
- Fist (typographic term)
- Type
- Symbol
- Unicode block
- Miscellaneous Symbols
- Unicode group
- Pointing hand symbols
- Added in
- Unicode 1.1 (1993)
- Related
- 🖙 Sideways White Right Pointing Index U+1F599🯁 Left Third White Right Pointing Index U+1FBC1
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