Manicule

{{distinguish|Manacle|Manicure}}{{good article}} {{use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{cs1 config|mode=cs1}} {{Short description|Symbol depicting a pointing finger}} {{Infobox symbol |sign=☞ |name=Manicule | unicode ={{unbulleted list |{{unichar|261A}} |{{unichar|261B}} |{{unichar|261C}} |{{unichar|261D|suffix=&#xFE0E;}} <!--with {{unichar|FE0E}} because Chrome makes it an emoji otherwise --> |{{unichar|261E}} |{{unichar|261F}} }} |unicode note =Although the symbol names begin with {{midsize|{{Allcaps|Black}}}} or {{midsize|{{Allcaps|White}}}}, Unicode uses the word 'black' to mean solid and 'white' to mean outlined.{{efn|The actual colour is a user choice, for example {{red|☚}} and {{red|☞}}.}} |see also=← {{unichar/name|na=ARROW|nlink=Arrow (symbol)}} |different from ={{unbulleted list |{{unichar|130A7|nlink=Hand (hieroglyph)}} |{{unichar|00B6|nlink=Pilcrow}} }} }} {{special characters}}

The '''manicule''', {{char|☞}}, is a typographical mark with the appearance of a hand with its index finger extended in a pointing gesture. It is typically used to draw the reader's attention to a certain part of a text. In older texts, it had a broader variety of uses including indicating section headers, marginal notes, and terms for cross-reference. The term manicule was derived from the Latin ''manicula'', or 'little hand', though it has been known by many other names, often related to its various functions, including '''fist''', '''index''', and '''pointer'''.

Originally used for handwritten marginal notes, it saw widespread usage during the Renaissance by readers who annotated their own books. After the invention of movable type, manicules were cast in metal type blocks and were commonly used in 19th-century advertisements. The symbol's popularity declined by the end of the century, perhaps due to oversaturation. The manicule is infrequently used today, except as an occasional archaic novelty or on informal directional signs.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|at=ch. 9}} Similar symbols persist as emoji and in the standard hand cursor icon used for clickable hyperlinks or other interactive elements.

==Terminology== Throughout its history, the mark has been referred to by a variety of names.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pages=9–10}} When William H. Sherman wrote the first dedicated study of the symbol in his 2005 paper, "Towards a History of the Manicule",{{sfnp|Houston|2013|p=167}} he used the term ''manicule''. It is derived from the Latin root ''manicula'', meaning "little hand". Cognates of the term were common in Romance languages, but the English loanword ''manicule'' was largely restricted to manuscript scholarship prior to Sherman's paper. Sherman explains his decision not to use one of the various English terms because ''manicule'' describes the mark itself while many of the other terms describe one of its various functions. For example, Sherman writes that "''fist'' has its origins in printers' slang and should properly be restricted to the products of the printing press".{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pages=9–10}}

Sherman lists 14 further names used for the symbol.{{efn|Sherman mentions finding "15 other names", but lists only 14.}} Sherman writes that three are likely conflations with other terms. The first of these, the ''pilcrow'' is the paragraph mark, {{char|¶}}. The second, ''maniple'' is either a misapplication of ''maniple'', the cloth used by priests during Mass, or it is a combination of ''manicule'' with ''manciple''.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pages=9–10}} The third, {{lang|la|indicule}} is likely a combination of ''indicator'' with ''manicule''. Sherman then lists the Latin {{lang|la|indicationum}} and ten English terms for the manicule:{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pages=9–10}}

* hand * pointing hand * hand director * pointer * digit * fist * mutton fist * bishop's fist * index * indicator

==History== ===Handwritten manicules=== thumb|alt=Hand-drawn hand and sleeve extending from the edge of a manuscript to a line of text|15th-century manuscript manicule

The symbol began as a form of marginalia that developed alongside books in their now-standard codex form.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|p=168}} The codex format for texts, introduced in the 4th century AD, was better suited to marginal notation than the continuous scrolls used in antiquity. While the text on a scroll is written on the same long length of papyrus or parchment, a codex has physically separate pages bound at one edge. Their format is very similar to the modern book, although they were typically handmade from expensive vellum or parchment made from animal hides instead of paper.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|pp=168–172}} Stallybrass argues that the codex encouraged discontinuous reading of a text because readers could easily flip between distant pages.{{sfnp|Stallybrass|2002|p=46}}

{{blockquote |text=The scroll as a technology depends upon a literal unwinding, in which the physical proximity of one moment in the narrative to another is both materially and symbolically significant. One cannot move easily back and forth between distant points on a scroll. But it is precisely such movement back and forth that the book permits. It not only allows for discontinuous reading; it encourages it. |author=Peter Stallybrass |source="Books and Scrolls: Navigating the Bible" (2002){{sfnp|Stallybrass|2002|p=46}} }}

In Europe, note-taking by readers and the related usage of the manicule peaked in the Renaissance. It is difficult to say when the manicule first appeared because its usage was heavily tied to the act of reading. Renaissance owners of expensive manuscripts and of early printed books often extensively annotated their books.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|at=ch. 9}} Many manuscripts and printed books from the period contain personal systems of marginal symbols and notes written by the book's reader, and some even have handwritten legends for the symbols and entire indexes appended to the book.{{sfnp|Sherman|2008|p=27}}

The term ''index'' had a broader range of meaning in medieval and early Renaissance books.{{sfnp|Smith|Woudhuysen|2010|at=}} The modern index, an alphabetic listing of topics printed at the back of a book, was not included in medieval manuscript books or the early printed books. Instead, readers would rely on a broad range of ''indices'' that they added to their own books, including marginalia, tables, lists, and bookmarks. The term ''index'' comes from the ''index finger'' which could be used by readers to physically mark one's place when cross-referencing different pages in a book.{{sfnp|Conrau-Lewis|2021|at="Indexes: Definition and History"}} A common type of marginal index was the ''nota bene'', which translates literally as "note well", where a written note would be placed in the margin and often directed to a part of the main text with a manicule.{{sfnp|Smith|Woudhuysen|2010|at=par. 1}}

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| image1 = Domesday marginal references.png | alt1 = passage reading, 'Domesday has also the following series of marginal references for passages omitted or afterwards added, and these in most instances explain themselves.' above columns of symbols including the manicule, dagger, asterisk, maltese cross, various letters, and other obscure symbols | caption1 = Johnson (1824)

| image2 = Domesday manicule.png | alt2 = hand drawn hand and cuff | caption2 = Domesday (1086)

| footer = According to John Johnson's ''Typographia, Or The Printers' Instructor'' (1824), the manicule was one of many self-explanatory marginal symbols appearing in Domesday Book, completed in 1086. }}

Though the manicule was used for centuries to annotate books by both copyists and readers, there was little written about the mark itself.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|p=3}} The oldest book known to contain a manicule is the 1086 land survey, Domesday Book, but the age of the annotation is unknown and may date to much later.{{sfnp|McPharlin|1942|pp=47–48}} Domesday Book uses a range of symbols for marginal annotations including the manicule and daggers.{{sfnp|McPharlin|1942|pp=47–48}} Printer John Johnson's 1824 typography guide, ''Typographia, Or The Printers' Instructor'', dismissively says that Domesday Book's various reference marks, including the dagger, manicule, and asterisk, "in most instances explain themselves".{{sfnp|Houston|2013|p=172}}

Manicules appeared in 12th-century handwritten manuscripts in Spain,{{sfnp|Glaister|2001|page=141}} and became common in 14th- and 15th-century Italian manuscripts. Some were as simple as "two squiggly strokes suggesting the barest sketch of a pointing hand" and thus quick to draw, while others were playful and elaborate, with shading and artful cuffs. Some have fingers lengthened and bent to point deep into the text.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pages=11–12}} For example, a 14th-century manuscript of Cicero's ''Paradoxa Stoicorum'' includes manicules that variously stretch out fingernails, stretch all of their fingers to cover the full length of a passage,{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|p=11}} are an octopus, or wield a snake.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|pp=175–176}}{{sfnp|Cicero|c. 1400|pages=1–4}}

<gallery mode=packed caption="Variety of manicules from a 14th-century manuscript"> File:BANC MS UCB 085 fingernail.jpg|alt=a fingernail stretches about four times the length of hand to point several rows into the text|Nail<br/>(p. 1) File:BANC MS UCB 085 octopus.jpg|alt=an octopus points at multiple lines with its tentacles|Octopus<br/>(p. 2) File:BANC MS UCB 085 fingers.jpg|alt=fingers bend and stretch across the length of the page|Fingers<br/>(p. 3) File:BANC MS UCB 085 snake.jpg|alt=a hand holds a snake bracketing 7 lines of text|Snake<br/>(p. 4) </gallery>

After the popularisation of the printing press starting in the 1450s, the handwritten manicule continued as a means to annotate printed documents.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|pp=179–180}} Some early print books contain both printed manicules from the publisher and handwritten manicules from readers highlighting different parts of the text.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|p=12}} They eventually fell out of popularity in the 19th century.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|p=184}}

===In print=== thumb|left|alt=printed hand and cuff|A manicule from the "Specimen Book of the Cincinnati Type Foundry" (1882) With the invention of movable type, the manicule was printed from its own metal type block in the same manner as individual letters, numbers, and punctuation marks.{{sfnp|McPharlin|1942|pp=47–51}}{{sfnp|Berger|2023|p=187}} Early printers used the manicule as a type of paragraph mark.{{sfnp|Glaister|2001|page=141}} Before paragraph and section breaks were signalled by spacing and font changes, printers used typographic symbols including the manicule and pilcrow.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pp=14–16}} Sometimes these marks distinguished different types of textual divisions, such as in a {{circa|1548}} printing of John Heywood's ''A Play of Love'' where the pilcrow and manicule were used to indicate dialogue and action, respectively.{{sfnp|Bourne|2020|p=82}} Mathias Huss and Johannes Schabeler used the manicule as a paragraph marker in their 1484 edition of Paulus Florentinus's {{lang|la|Breviarum totius juris canonici}}.{{sfnp|Glaister|2001|page=141}} Writer John Boardley identifies the first appearance of a manicule in a printed book as an earlier 1479 edition of the same work printed in Milan by Leonhard Pachel and Ulrich Scinzenzeller, and using the same Gothic rotunda font. In both versions of this book, the pilcrow and manicule were used to set off sections on laws and commentaries on laws, respectively.{{sfnp|Boardley|2020}} Into the 19th century, an American magazine, ''The Saturday Evening Post'', separated shorter breaking news stories with manicules.{{sfnp|Hollandbeck|2021}}

Much early print usage of the manicule continued the manuscript tradition of connecting the main text to marginal notes, but in a variety of nonstandard ways, such as pointing outward to the margin or combined with reference letters.{{sfnp|McPharlin|1942|pp=47–51}} From the 16th century onward, the manicule appeared frequently as a decorative element similar to the fleuron ({{char|❦}}).{{sfnp|McPharlin|1942|p=51}} It was used on title pages of books, alongside other so-called "dingbats".{{sfnp|Houston|2013|pp=181–182}}

thumb|upright=0.66|alt=An upward pointing hand with a butterfly perched on the index finger|Butterfly Manicule from Walt Whitman's poetry collection ''Leaves of Grass'' The manicule attained a great degree of popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly in advertisements. It also became more visually diverse, with larger and more complex fists created.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|pp=181–184}} According to literature scholar Eric Conrad, American poet Walt Whitman was evoking both the manicule's tradition of annotation and its contemporary association with advertising, when he used a pointing hand with a butterfly perched on the index finger to represent his 1860 collection ''Leaves of Grass''.{{sfnp|Conrad|2019|pp=54–86}}

The symbol was also widely used in signage, particularly in fingerposts.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|page= 13}} Some gravestones from the 1830s and 1840s included manicules pointing upwards. Paul McPharlin wrote of finding a small-town grave marker using a contemporary fat face font, "at the bottom of which a large 'fist' points electrically heavenward".{{sfnp|McPharlin|1942|at=pp. 60–61: "He may find, as I have in a graveyard of such a little southeastern Michigan town as Hartland, a slab of white marble with an epitaph in fatface and decorated letters at the bottom of which a large 'fist' points electrically heavenward."}} The United States Postal Service has used a pointing hand as a graphical indicator meaning "Return to Sender".{{sfnp|Sherman|2008|pp=39–40}}

Its popularity declined toward the end of the 19th century, perhaps due to oversaturation in advertising. By the 1890s, it was used more often for ironic effect.{{sfnp|Houston|2013|p=184}} Sherman (2005) argues that as the symbols became standardised, they were no longer reflective of individuality in comparison to other writing, and this explains their diminished popularity.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pages=20–21}} As they were replaced by simpler arrows, the pointing hand became associated with the past and is sometimes used as part of an old-fashioned or "vintage" aesthetic.{{sfnp|Cooperrider|2023|p=59}}{{sfnp|Houston|2013|at=pp. 184–185: "[...] The pointing fist as direction sign is a stock in trade for businesses wishing to affect a vintage air,"}} The manicule became obscure enough that it was omitted from many typefaces, being left to specialist faces containing dingbat characters. More recently, OpenType computer fonts have begun to include custom manicules in their repertoire.{{sfnp|Seddon|2016|p=47}}

==Usage== thumb|alt=pointing hands in a book mark both the cross-reference text, "for Varuce loke in the Chapitre named Acrochordones", and the section heading, "The. 361. Chapitre dothe shewe of the principall Veynes." |Manicule as section header and cross-reference indicator in Andrew Boorde's ''Breviary of Health'' (1547){{sfnp|McConchie|2019|pp=41–42}} The typical use of the pointing hand is as a bullet-like symbol to direct the reader's attention to important text, having roughly the same meaning as the word "attention" or "note". It is used this way both by annotators and printers. From its first few centuries of use, the manicule was used to draw attention to specific text, such as a title (in some cases in the form of a row of manicules), inserted text, noteworthy passage, or sententiae. In some cases, fleurons (flower marks) and asterisks were used for similar purposes.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pages=14–18}}

Less commonly, in earlier centuries the pointing hand acted as a section divider with a pilcrow as paragraph divider, or more rarely as the paragraph divider itself.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|pages=14–18}} These uses were sometimes mixed within a single text. In Andrew Boorde's 1547 ''Brevyary of Health'', manicules were used to highlight passages, indicate section headers, and to indicate terms that can be cross-referenced (looked up under another entry).{{sfnp|Boorde|2022|at=fol. C. xvi. U [p. 239]}}{{sfnp|McConchie|2019|pp=41–42}}

Print reference works, such as encyclopedias, have used various typographical elements including bold text, italics, small caps, arrows, and manicules to mark terms for cross-reference. For example, they might format a term with small caps and a manicule, as {{midsize|{{allcaps|☞&nbsp;example}}}}, to indicate that a reader could flip through the alphabetised listings to an entry titled "example".<ref>{{harvp|Trumble|2024|p=92}}; {{harvp|McHenry|2015}}.</ref>{{efn|Examples of the manicule used for cross-references: * {{Cite book |last=Farkas |first=Daniel H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LZ2YIh_n92kC |title=DNA from A to Z |date=2004 |publisher=Amer. Assoc. for Clinical Chemistry |isbn=978-1-59425-002-6 |language=en |ref=none}} * {{Cite book |last=Simmonds |first=Jeremy |title=The Encyclopedia of Dead Rock Stars: Heroin, Handguns, and Ham Sandwiches |date=2012 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |isbn=978-1-61374-532-8 |language=en |ref=none}} * {{Cite book |last=Pregadio |first=Fabrizio |title=Dictionary of taoist internal alchemy |date=2025 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-71223-2 |series=Handbook of oriental studies |location=Leiden |ref=none}} }} Some reference works have used cross-reference manicules as an abbreviation for "see".{{sfnp|Lehmann|2022|at=sec. 1.5.4}} In printed texts, the cross-references and marginal notes have served a linking function similar to the clickable hyperlinks used in digital encyclopedias,{{sfnp|Hoff|2025|at=ch. 3, sec. 1.2, "Navigating, Hyperlinking, and Generating Knowledge."}} which have replaced purely typographic cross-references.{{sfnp|Miller|1998|at="Cross-References to Hyperlinks"}}

The manicule has had several niche technical usages.<!--topic sentence--> In linguistics, it is used in optimality theory tableaux to identify the optimal output in a candidate of generated possibilities from a given input.{{sfnp|Prince|Smolensky|2004|page= 19}} The computer programming language Smalltalk-72 uses a right-pointing manicule as a quotation mark.<ref>{{harvp|Goldberg|Kay|1976|page=15|}}: "Smalltalk uses a number of special "iconic" characters, many of which were invented by some Smalltalk students to help remind them of important distinctions. An example is 'quote' whose sign to adults is usually ("). The children preferred to use ☞ to signify a literal symbol ..."</ref> The Lincoln Writer terminals designed around 1958 for the MIT Lincoln Laboratory's TX-2 computer used a character set which included a right-pointing manicule;{{sfnp|Gilmore|Savell|1959}} this was nicknamed the "Meta Hand".<ref name="Vanderburgh">{{harvp|Vanderburgh|1958|p=4}}: "The character ☛ will be used to indicate an aside. For example, it can be used to indicate special directions to the assembly program. (It has been nicknamed the 'Meta Hand.')"</ref> The character set including the manicule was first trialled in an on-screen keyboard for the TX-0 computer in 1957.{{sfnp|Gilmore|Savell|1959|pp=4–6}} In 1959 the same character set was also installed in a Flexowriter intended for use with TX-0.<ref name="Dennis">{{harvp|Dennis|1959}}.</ref> The 1978 MIT space-cadet keyboard contains two manicule keys, one left-pointing and one right-pointing, both used as function keys.{{sfnp|Moon|Wechsler|1981|at=sec. 1.2}} {{clear left}}

==Computer cursor== thumb|alt=hand cursor over a hyperlink|A version of the hand cursor used in web browsers

A similar pointing hand icon is used as a mouse cursor in many graphical user interfaces to indicate a type of clickable object.{{sfnp|Cooperrider|2023|p=60}} The earliest known software release to use this type of cursor was Alan Kay's Smalltalk for the Xerox workstations. Those computers, like the Xerox Star, influenced the user interface of Apple's Lisa and Macintosh desktop computers.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|page=13}} Apple used a hand cursor to indicate a clickable hyperlink in their 1987 HyperCard software, a local hypertext framework developed by Bill Atkinson.<ref name="Boluk">{{harvp|Boluk|LeMieux|2017|pages=55–59}}.</ref> At Apple, graphic designer Susan Kare created a "clicker" icon similar to a manicule that influenced later cursors for hypertext as well as video games.<ref name="Jackson">{{harvp|Jackson|2020|pages=13–38}}.</ref>{{sfnp|Cohen|2025}} It became the standard way to represent links when it was adopted by the early web browsers in the 1990s.{{sfnp|Sherman|2005|page=14}} Experimental author Shelley Jackson observed that while visually similar to a manicule, the often-gloved hand cursor serves not as a textual signpost but as an invitation to make users "encouraged by the image of the hand to feel that they were interacting directly, physically with the image on the screen".<ref name="Jackson"/>

==Gallery== {{gallery |title=Selected images |height=250 |File:Gill Sans Q, punctuation and manicules (22065785558).jpg |Two manicules drawn by Eric Gill for Gill Sans |alt1=manicules and punctuation |file:John Wilkes Booth wanted poster new.jpg |1865 wanted poster of John Wilkes Booth |alt2=Poster with manicule highlighting "$100,000 Reward! The Murderer." |File:Cheers Boston 2005.jpg |Signage for the bar Cheers (from the ''Cheers'' TV series) has a Victorian-era theme.{{sfnp|Ross|2025}} |alt3=Sign reading, "Cheers est. 1985" highlighted by a manicule |File:Stepney Green Station - geograph.org.uk - 7415979.jpg|A "To the trains" sign at Stepney Green tube station with a manicule|alt4=A white-on-brown old sign on a staircase that reads "TO THE / TRAINS" with a manicule on the bottom right pointing down the staircase}}

==Unicode== {{Contains special characters|emoticon|section}}

The Unicode Consortium added many popular symbols into the first version of their standard character set, which Apple had made available on their mass market Macintosh home computer and LaserWriter printer for several years.{{sfnp|Houston|2025|pp=36–37}} Unicode (version 1.0, 1991) included six "pointing index" characters in the Miscellaneous Symbols block.{{sfnp|Unicode 1.0.0}}{{sfnp|Cooperrider|2023|p=60}} *{{unichar|261A|Black left pointing index}} *{{unichar|261B|Black right pointing index}} *{{unichar|261C|White left pointing index}} *{{unichar|261D|suffix=&#xFE0E; |note=with {{unichar|FE0E}} to assert text style [see {{slink||Emoji}}, below]}} *{{unichar|261E|White right pointing index}} *{{unichar|261F|White down pointing index}}

In 2006, chief technical officer Mark Davis commented on Japanese image characters unavailable in Unicode, "There are a number of symbol sets that are in widespread use, but currently can only be mapped to [non-Unicode] characters on input."{{sfnp|Houston|2025|at=pt.1, ch. 11}} Unicode 6.0 (2010) added hundreds of emoji characters to the specification,{{sfnp|Houston|2025|at=pt.1, ch. 11}} including four more pointing hands in Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs:{{sfnp|Unicode 6.1}} *{{unichar|1F446|White up pointing backhand index}} *{{unichar|1F447|White down pointing backhand index}} *{{unichar|1F448|White left pointing backhand index}} *{{unichar|1F449|White right pointing backhand index}}

Unicode 7.0 (2014) added several more indexes to the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block.{{sfnp|Unicode 7.0.0}} These additions built on Unicode's support for the Zapf Dingbats widely used in laser printers, to add compatibility with the Wingdings and Webdings fonts introduced by Microsoft:{{sfnp|Suignard|2011|pp=1, 17, 27}} *{{unichar|1F597|White down pointing left hand index}} *{{unichar|1F598|Sideways white left pointing index}} *{{unichar|1F599|Sideways white right pointing index}} *{{unichar|1F59A|Sideways black left pointing index}} *{{unichar|1F59B|Sideways black right pointing index}} *{{unichar|1F59C|Black left pointing backhand index}} *{{unichar|1F59D|Black right pointing backhand index}} *{{unichar|1F59E|Sideways white up pointing index}} *{{unichar|1F59F|Sideways white down pointing index}} *{{unichar|1F5A0|Sideways black up pointing index}} *{{unichar|1F5A1|Sideways black down pointing index}} *{{unichar|1F5A2|Black up pointing backhand index}} *{{unichar|1F5A3|Black down pointing backhand index}}

Unicode 13.0 (2020) added a three-part index (🯁🯂🯃) in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block:{{sfnp|Unicode 13.0.0}} *{{unichar|1FBC1|Left third white right pointing index}} *{{unichar|1FBC2|Middle third white right pointing index}} *{{unichar|1FBC3|Right third white right pointing index}}

===Emoji=== Five Unicode manicule characters have emoji forms, including all four introduced in Unicode 6.0. The upward pointing index from Unicode 1.0 also has an emoji form, and is often used to mean the word ''this''.{{sfnp|Cooperrider|2023|p=60}}{{sfnp|Davis|Holbrook|2025|at=[https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-data.txt "Emoji Data for UTS #51"]}} All five have standardised variants for text and emoji presentation.{{sfnp|Davis|Holbrook|2025|at=[http://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt "Emoji Variation Sequences for UTS #51"]}} Five other selectors allow a skin tone to be specified for the emoji variant. The tones are drawn from the Fitzpatrick scale for susceptibility to UV light. For example, ☝︎, ☝️, ☝🏻, ☝🏼, ☝🏽, ☝🏾, and ☝🏿 are all the same character, {{unichar|261D|suffix=&#xFE0E;}}, with different selectors applied.{{sfnp|Houston|2025|at=pt.2, ch. 15}}

{| class="wikitable nounderlines" style="border-collapse:collapse;background:#FFFFFF" |+ Emoji variation sequences |-style="background:#F8F8F8" | style="text-align:right" | U+ || 261D || 1F446 || 1F447 || 1F448 || 1F449 |- | style="background:#F8F8F8;text-align:left" | default&nbsp;appearance{{efn|with no variation selector applied. This is the default of the web browser being used: for example, Android displays 261D in emoji form }} || ☝ || 👆 || 👇 || 👈 || 👉 |- | style="background:#F8F8F8;text-align:left" | base+VS15 (text variation selector) || {{Emoji presentation|☝|text}} || {{Emoji presentation|👆|text}} || {{Emoji presentation|👇|text}} || {{Emoji presentation|👈|text}} || {{Emoji presentation|👉|text}} |- | style="background:#F8F8F8;text-align:left" | base+VS16 (emoji variation selector) || {{Emoji presentation|☝}} || {{Emoji presentation|👆}} || {{Emoji presentation|👇}} || {{Emoji presentation|👈}} || {{Emoji presentation|👉}} |}

==See also== * {{anli|Miscellaneous Technical}}, which includes {{unichar2|⏿|nlink=Miscellaneous Technical#(23C0–23FF)}} * {{anli|Arrow (symbol)}} * {{anli|Hand (hieroglyph)}} * {{anli|Obelus}} (text pointer with various meanings) * {{anli|V sign}} * {{anli|Yad}} in the shape of a hand pointing

== Notes == {{Notelist}}

== References == {{Reflist}}

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==External links== {{Commons category|Manicules}} *[https://www.flickr.com/groups/manicule/ Collection of photographs of manicules on Flickr]

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