4 ms·

It certainly seems so. I love how simple-yet-not-too-simple it is.

• jq-r 6y ago
  It is the exactly the same hand symbol Henry VIII used to mark down interesting passages in Bible which he hoped would help him to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
  • ian0 6y ago
    Apparently called an index or manicule with examples spotted from the 12th century.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography)
    • lioeters 6y ago
      Delightful! I'd say this manicule is a proto-emoji of sorts. > Thomas Pynchon parodies this punctuation mark in his novel Gravity's Rainbow by depicting a middle finger, rather than an index finger, pointing at a line of text.