Thumbs down: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A hand making a downward-pointing gesture with a medium skin tone. The thumb is firmly pressed against the side of the fist, signaling strong disapproval, rejection, or a negative rating.

Usage Context

Widely used across social media platforms to express disagreement, denote a bad review, or signal that a user is unhappy with specific content. It serves as the direct opposite to the 👍 emoji and is frequently used to provide quick, non-verbal feedback on posts or comments.

History

The thumbs down gesture traces its roots back to ancient gladiatorial games as a signal for death or defeat. In the digital age, it became a staple of early internet forums and rating systems, officially joining the Unicode standard in 2010 before gaining skin tone modifiers in 2015.

Details

Glyph

👎🏽

Unicode

U+1F44E U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44e_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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

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