WhatsApp is the application that has won the hearts of several people. Through it you can check the status that your friends are posting, as well as send funny memes, animated stickers or the classic photos and videos. But there is something much more surprising in the app that is sought after by many.
It’s about the emojis of WhatsApp. Each of them has a characteristic meaning. Among all of them we can find sections of objects, animals, professions, yellow faces, flags, geometric figures, and even different colors of hearts.
But there is one that attracts a lot of attention and is one of the most popular in the world: we are talking of the emoji pointing down. Do you know what it means?
If your friend or coworker sent you this emoticon in WhatsApp You must take into account the explanation that we will give you to avoid future confusion. It works the same on Instagram and Messenger.
WHAT DOES THE EMOJI OF THE FINGER POINTING DOWN MEAN ON WHATSAPP
Backhand index pointing down, as it is known in English, is one of the most used emojis in the world followed by hearts and yellow faces. It should be noted that this finger pointing down has an interpretation.
To know it we must resort to the page that is responsible for compiling all the emojis of WhatsApp that little by little are added each year: we refer to Emojipedia.
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According to this website, the finger pointing down means that what is written under this icon is something of importance, something so relevant that you cannot lose sight of when you continue the conversation.
Finger pointing down was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name of “Downward Pointing Reverse Index” and was added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
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