Thumbs down: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-toned hand making a downward-pointing gesture with the thumb extended. This graphic depicts a universal sign of disapproval or rejection.

Usage Context

Used to express disagreement, express a negative opinion, or indicate that something is incorrect or unwelcome. It serves as the direct antonym to 👍🏿 and is frequently used to vote down content in social media threads or highlight dissatisfaction with a product or idea.

History

While the standard thumbs down has existed since Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the ability to modify skin tones was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update allowed users to better represent diverse human characteristics across digital platforms, bringing nuance to non-verbal communication in messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

👎🏿

Unicode

U+1F44E U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44e_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-closed

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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