Hand Symbol Copy & Paste

Pointing manicules, victory and OK gestures, thumbs, claps, and waving hands. Click any tile to copy.

About hand symbols

The black pointing hands (☚ ☛ ☜ ☝ ☞ ☟) are called manicules and date to medieval manuscripts where scribes drew them in the margins to flag important passages; Unicode placed them in the Dingbats and Miscellaneous Symbols blocks. The full-color gesture emoji (👍 👏 🙏) come from Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs and the Emoticons blocks.

Every glyph above is a plain Unicode character, so it pastes into bios, captions, messages, and documents the same way a regular letter does. No installation, no font file — the character itself carries the visual style.

How to use these symbols

Click any tile to copy. Paste anywhere plain text is allowed — Instagram, TikTok, Discord, X, WhatsApp, email, Notion, Google Docs, code comments, signatures. If a symbol renders as an empty box on someone else’s device, their system font doesn’t cover that Unicode block; pick a variant from a more widely-supported range.