Middle finger: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand showing the middle finger extended upward with a medium-dark skin tone. The design depicts a common, aggressive gesture used to express extreme defiance, contempt, or insult.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to convey anger, rejection, or a 'go away' sentiment in casual text conversations. Because it is highly offensive, it is rarely used in professional communication and is often deployed to jokingly shut down a conversation or react to something frustrating. It is functionally similar to 👎 but carries significantly more hostility.

History

Despite being one of the most requested additions to the emoji set for years, the middle finger was not officially added to the Unicode standard until 2014 as part of Unicode 7.0. Its inclusion followed long-standing public debate regarding the necessity of representing offensive physical gestures in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

🖕🏾

Unicode

U+1F595 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f595_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD95;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-single-finger

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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