Middle finger: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A hand gesture featuring an extended middle finger with a medium-light skin tone. It is a direct and unmistakable sign of contempt, disrespect, or defiance.
Usage Context
Used in digital communication to tell someone off, express intense frustration, or reject an idea. It serves the same purpose as the thumbs down emoji but with significantly more aggression and hostility. Because of its offensive nature, it is often used during heated online arguments or to signal total disagreement.
History
The middle finger gesture dates back to ancient Greece as an insult. While the Unicode standard added the middle finger emoji in 2014, its inclusion was a point of contention among tech companies, as it was one of the first explicit, non-vulgar-but-offensive hand signs to be officially supported across major mobile platforms.
Details
Glyph
🖕🏼
Unicode
U+1F595 U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f595_1f3fc:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory hand-single-finger
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Microsoft Fluent License
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