Index (typography)
![Pointing hands used in the signage outside the bar Cheers in Boston, part of a Victorian decorative theme](/Images/godic/202501/20/Cheers_Boston_20052748.jpg")
![1865 wanted poster of John Wilkes Booth using index-fist character.](/Images/godic/202501/20/John_Wilkes_Booth_wanted_poster_new2748.jpg")
The symbol ☞ is a punctuation mark, called an index, manicule (from the Latin root manus for "hand" and manicula for "little hand") or fist. Other names for the symbol include printer's fist, bishop's fist, digit, mutton-fist, hand, hand director, pointer, and pointing hand.