Man gesturing no: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with medium-dark skin tone crossing his arms in front of his face to form an 'X' shape. His hands are held outward with palms facing forward, mimicking the universal body language for rejection or a hard 'no'.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to way to shut down a conversation, decline an invitation, or signal that something is off-limits. It functions as a digital stop sign and is frequently used alongside 🚫 or 🙅 to reinforce a message of denial or disapproval.

History

The gesture is rooted in non-verbal communication systems used throughout history to communicate across language barriers. The specific 'man gesturing no' character was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the effort to provide gendered and diverse options for common physical expressions.

Details

Glyph

🙅🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F645 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f645_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE45;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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