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White Left Pointing Backhand Index

A&nbsp;pale skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

<ul>
	<li>Type 1 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;Pale white; blond or red hair; blue eyes; freckles</li>
	<li>Type 2 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;White; fair; blond or red hair; blue, green, or hazel eyes</li>
</ul>

This is a combination of type 1&nbsp;(pale white) and type 2 (white). Despite the descriptions, Apple&rsquo;s artwork tends to display this type-1-2 skin tone modifier with dark hair.

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-1-2

Emojipedia

Backhand Index Pointing Left: Light Skin Tone

Backhand Index Pointing Left: Medium-Light Skin Tone

Backhand Index Pointing Left: Medium Skin Tone

Backhand Index Pointing Left: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Backhand Index Pointing Left: Dark Skin Tone

Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Previously used by Facebook&rsquo;s Messenger platform. Discontinued in 2017, replaced by flagship Facebook emoji set.

Samsung devices use <a href="https://news.samsung.com/global/samsungs-emoji-suite-makes-for-a-more-emotional-digital-world">their own emoji designs</a>&nbsp;which are different to those used on other <a href="/google/">Android devices</a>. These&nbsp;glossy emojis&nbsp;appear on devices such as the Samsung Galaxy and Galaxy Note series and are updated as part of the Samsung One UI interface layer (previously Samsung Experience, before that Samsung TouchWiz)&nbsp;which runs on top of Android.

Note that Samsung users may see select emojis display as their <a href="/google/">Google</a>&nbsp;set design. This is due to <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/faster-emoji-updates-on-the-way-for-android-apps/">Android AppCompat</a>, which will display a Google emoji design within an app or web platform&nbsp;when a Samsung device has not yet been updated to support that particular emoji.

Since the introduction of Samsung&#39;s emoji set in <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-2.0">2014</a>, various Unicode characters that have not been recommended to have emoji presentation have nevertheless been given a colorful emoji design on Samsung platforms. You can view many of these characters&nbsp;<a href="/non-rgi-emoji-presentation">here</a>.

Note:&nbsp;<a href="/whatsapp/">WhatsApp</a>, <a href="/twitter/">Twitter</a>, and <a href="/facebook/">Facebook</a> have their&nbsp;own emoji designs&nbsp;which are used&nbsp;instead of Google or Samsung emojis in their respective apps on Android devices.

Emojis for Samsung Galaxy and Galaxy Note series of phones. See which emojis are supported on current Samsung phones, and how they compare to other platforms.

Samsung Emoji List — Emojis for Samsung Galaxy and Galaxy Note [Updated 2023]

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices on 28 March 2024, Samsung&#39;s One UI 6.1&nbsp;revised a considerable number of previously available emoji designs.

Many emojis had subtle modifications made to their outline, contrast, and shading, including the majority of&nbsp;<a href="/people">🧑 People</a> emojis. Meanwhile, many emojis within&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href="/travel-places">🚀 Travel &amp; Places</a> and&nbsp;<a href="/objects">💡 Objects</a> categories were given more extensive redesigns.&nbsp;

One UI 6.1

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices on 30&nbsp;October 2023, Samsung&#39;s One UI 6.0&nbsp;featured a completely new design style for the majority of the vendor&#39;s emojis.

All smiley, food, and animal emoji designs have been revised in this update, as have the majority of the people emojis.

This is the most significant revision of the vendor&#39;s emoji set since&nbsp;February 2018&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://emojipedia.org/samsung/experience-9.0">Experience 9.0</a> update, which introduced a significant number of design revisions that were consistent with those used on other platforms.

This update also introduced support for the 2023 <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.1">Emoji 15.1</a> recommendation list.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-6-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update.</a>

One UI 6.0

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices from October 2022, Samsung&#39;s One UI 5.0 provided support for both&nbsp;2021&#39;s <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a> and 2022&#39;s <a href="https://emojipedia.org/emoji-15.0/">Emoji 15.0</a>&nbsp;recommendations.

Prior to the release of One UI 5.0, many Samsung users may have seen support for <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>&nbsp;emojis provided via <a href="/google/">Google&#39;s emoji design set</a>. This was due to Google&#39;s expansion of&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/faster-emoji-updates-on-the-way-for-android-apps/">Android AppCompat</a>&nbsp;in 2021.

A select number of users also reported seeing <a href="/emoji-14.0/">Emoji 14.0</a>&nbsp;designs in Samsung&#39;s emoji font when updating to One UI 4.1.1 in September 2022.

One UI 5.0

Beginning its rollout for select Samsung devices from&nbsp;mid-January 2022, this small emoji updated changed the design of Samsung&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="/sparkles/">✨ Sparkles</a> emoji to be more consistent&nbsp;with those of other emoji vendors.

Additional devices received this emoji update alongside Samsung&#39;s&nbsp;One UI 4.1 update, which was made widely available in March 2022 after initially debuting with the Galaxy S22 series of devices a month earlier.

One UI 4.0 January 2022

Beginning its rollout on&nbsp;2021-11-15 for Samsung&#39;s Galaxy S21 series of mobile devices,&nbsp;Samsung One UI 4.0&nbsp;added support for <a href="/emoji-13.1/">Emoji 13.1</a>.

One UI 4.0

Beginning its rollout in late July 2021 to select Samsung&rsquo;s Galaxy Z devices, One UI 3.1.1 updated a small number of existing emoji designs.

Select devices running Samsung One UI 3.1 were also given this emoji update&nbsp;via a firmware update in August 2021.

One UI 3.1.1

Released alongside the Galaxy Note 20 on&nbsp;2020-08-21, Samsung One UI 2.5 added support for <a href="/emoji-13.0/">Emoji 13.0</a>. This update also introduced a number of gender-inclusive designs for any emoji where gender is not specified. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-2-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 2.5

Samsung One UI 2.0&nbsp;began rolling out to users in February 2020.&nbsp;The first major devices to launch with this release were the&nbsp;Galaxy S20 and the Galaxy Z Flip.

This update provides support to the 136 gender-neutral person&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-sequences-three-letters-many-possibilities">ZWJ sequences </a>recommended in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>. However, the previously-released&nbsp;<a href="/woman/">👩 Woman&nbsp;</a>variant designs are displayed&nbsp;instead of a new gender-neutral design.

The 30 people holding hands emojis recommended&nbsp;in <a href="/emoji-12.1/">Emoji 12.1</a>&nbsp;are absent from this update.

One UI 2.1

Samsung One UI 2.0&nbsp;began rolling out to users in January 2020.

This update corrected a <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-emoji-adventures/">long-standing design oddity</a> in the Samsung emoji set, where the design for <a href="/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-u/">🇺 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U</a>&nbsp;displayed the letter V and <a href="/regional-indicator-symbol-letter-v/">🇻 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter V</a>&nbsp;displayed the letter U.

One UI 2.0

Samsung One UI 1.5 began rolling out to users in August 2019.&nbsp;The first major device&nbsp;to launch with this release was the Samsung&nbsp;Galaxy Note 10.

Updates in this release include full support for <a href="/emoji-12.0/">Emoji 12.0</a>, as well as&nbsp;a number of design changes&nbsp;including a change to the&nbsp;<a href="/people-with-bunny-ears/">👯 People With Bunny Ears</a> emoji designs.&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-1-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 1.5

Samsung One UI 1.0 (formerly known as Samsung Experience 10.0) began rolling out to users in&nbsp;December&nbsp;2018. The first major devices to launch with this release were the Samsung Galaxy S10 series, announced on February 20, 2019.

This release changed&nbsp;a number of emoji designs, including many animals and&nbsp;the <a href="/calendar/">📅 Calendar</a> emoji which changed to&nbsp;show&nbsp;July 17. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-one-ui-1-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

One UI 1.0

Samsung Experience 9.5 was released alongside the Galaxy Note 9 on 2018-08-24. This was Samsung&#39;s first release to support <a href="/emoji-11.0/">Emoji 11.0</a>. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-5-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.5

An updated set of emojis that began appearing for users with newer builds of&nbsp;Samsung Experience 9.0 since&nbsp;April 2018. Listed here as Experience 9.1, due to likelihood of this being the emoji set to be installed in the release following version 9.0. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-1-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.1

Samsung Experience 9.0 began rolling out to most users from the week of February 12, 2018 alongside the Samsung Android Oreo (Android 8.0)&nbsp;release.&nbsp;First&nbsp;<a href="https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-experience-9-0-beta-now-available">released as a beta</a> in November 2017, this&nbsp;comes standard on the new Samsung Galaxy S9.

Notable updates in this release include yellow becoming the default color for emoji skin tone (instead of pale white)&nbsp;and designs that are more consistent with those used on other platforms such as&nbsp;the <a href="/face-with-rolling-eyes/">rolling eyes emoji</a>.

<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsung-experience-9-0-emoji-changelog/">More about this update</a>.

Experience 9.0

Samsung Experience 8.5 was released alongside&nbsp;released the&nbsp;Galaxy Note 8 in September 2017 running Android 7.0 Marshmallow.

Experience 8.5

Samsung Experience 8.1&nbsp;was released to the public on 21&nbsp;April 2017 alongside the Galaxy S8. This update fixed&nbsp;the design for the <a href="/crossed-fingers/">Crossed Fingers emoji</a>, and included other minor design updates.

This update ran&nbsp;Android Nougat 7.0: the same releases as the original Samsung Nougat update. This version also&nbsp;contains the same number of emojis as the previous release.

Experience 8.1

Samsung Experience 8.0 was released on&nbsp;January 19, 2017 and&nbsp;brought compatibility with <a href="/emoji-4.0/">Emoji 4.0</a>, with new professions added, gendered emojis, and the rainbow flag.

A limited range of Samsung devices started <a href="https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-begins-rollout-of-android-7-0-nougat">receiving</a> this update from January 19, 2017.

Experience 8.0

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recieved an update on 22 September 2016, commonly referred to&nbsp;as the &quot;green battery update&quot;.

TouchWiz 7.1 (aka TouchWiz Grace UX 7.1) brought Unicode 9 emoji support to Samsung phones for the first time, as well as support for skin tone modifiers. <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-biggest-ever-emoji-update/">More on this update</a>.

TouchWiz 7.1

TouchWiz 5.1 launched on the&nbsp;Samsung Galaxy S5 running&nbsp;Android 4.4.2.

The TouchWiz 5.1&nbsp;emojis are generally the same as those provided on the Galaxy S4 (TouchWiz Nature UX 2), with only a few <a href="/camera-with-flash/">additions</a> and <a href="/woman-dancing/">modifications</a>.

👈🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Left: Light Skin Tone on Samsung TouchWiz 5.1

👈🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Left: Light Skin Tone on Samsung TouchWiz 5.1

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