Jari telunjuk: Perbezaan antara semakan

Ia biasanya digunakan untuk menunjukkan atau mengarahkan kepada sesuatu tempat, benda atau orang dalam sesetengah masyarakat.<ref name="Imai">{{cite web |url=http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/pdavid/preparedness/docs/Crosscultural/gestures.pdf |title=Gestures: Body Language and Nonverbal Communication |author=Gary Imai |accessdate=12 November 2009 |archive-date=31 Mac 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100331212736/http://www.comm.ohio-state.edu/pdavid/preparedness/docs/Crosscultural/gestures.pdf |dead-url=yes }}</ref> Walau bagaimanapun, perkara ini dipandang kasar atau tidak sopan dalam budaya-budaya tertentu dalam [[Nusantara]] termasuk dari [[orang Melayu]], [[orang Jawa]] (di mana ia boleh melambangkan keganasan atau kematian)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1990/0412/dindo4.html|title=A Thumb Points the Way in Java|last=Scott|first=David Clark|date=12 April 1990|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|quote=...figures in some reliefs can be seen pointing - with their thumbs. "Pointing with the index finger is a terrible thing to do. It means death or violence. People used their thumb for polite pointing and it's still the same today,'' notes Jan Fontein, curator of the exhibition of ancient Indonesian sculpture sponsored by Mobil Indonesia...}}</ref> dan sebagainya.