Thumbs down: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand gesture with the thumb pointing downward, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. It serves as a visual indicator of disapproval, rejection, or a negative rating.

Usage Context

This is the go-to sign for signaling that something is bad, incorrect, or unwanted. It functions as the direct opposite of the 👍 emoji, appearing frequently in comment threads, reviews, and messaging apps to express disagreement or dismissive feedback.

History

The original thumbs down icon traces back to ancient Roman gladiator games, where the gesture supposedly signaled that a fallen fighter should be killed. In modern digital communication, it was codified into Unicode in 2010, eventually gaining diverse skin tone options in 2016 to better match the wide range of global users.

Details

Glyph

👎🏼

Unicode

U+1F44E U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44e_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

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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