Man gesturing no: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A man with dark skin making an 'X' shape with his forearms in front of his face. His arms are positioned to form a barrier between his body and the viewer, clearly signaling a negative response.

Usage Context

This is the go-to way to decline an invitation, express disapproval, or signal that something is off-limits without typing a full sentence. It is the active, physical counterpart to the static 🚫 or the dismissive 🙅.

History

While the base gesture has been part of communication for ages, this specific version was added in 2016 as part of the Emoji 4.0 update. This release focused on adding diversity to the emoji keyboard by allowing users to modify human characters with skin tone modifiers, which were previously limited to simple smiley faces.

Details

Glyph

🙅🏿‍♂

Unicode

U+1F645 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f645_1f3ff_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE45;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♂

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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