Thumbs up: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand gesture featuring a closed fist with the thumb extended straight upward, rendered in a medium-dark skin tone. It serves as a clear, non-verbal signal for approval or success.

Usage Context

This is the go-to way to acknowledge a message, agree with an idea, or give a quick nod of encouragement. It is frequently used in professional chats to confirm that a task is complete or to give a colleague the 'green light.' Unlike the more enthusiastic 🔥, this gesture is grounded and reliable.

History

While the thumbs-up sign has been used throughout history as a gesture of favor, it became a cornerstone of internet communication with the rise of social media platforms in the late 2000s. The ability to modify the skin tone of this emoji was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 to provide better representation across global digital communities.

Details

Glyph

👍🏾

Unicode

U+1F44D U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44d_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

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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