Middle finger: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand gesture featuring an extended middle finger with a medium-light skin tone. It is a direct and unmistakable sign of contempt, disrespect, or defiance.

Usage Context

Used in digital communication to tell someone off, express intense frustration, or reject an idea. It serves the same purpose as the thumbs down emoji but with significantly more aggression and hostility. Because of its offensive nature, it is often used during heated online arguments or to signal total disagreement.

History

The middle finger gesture dates back to ancient Greece as an insult. While the Unicode standard added the middle finger emoji in 2014, its inclusion was a point of contention among tech companies, as it was one of the first explicit, non-vulgar-but-offensive hand signs to be officially supported across major mobile platforms.

Details

Glyph

🖕🏼

Unicode

U+1F595 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f595_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD95;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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