Middle finger: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A hand showing the middle finger extended upward with a medium-dark skin tone. The design depicts a common, aggressive gesture used to express extreme defiance, contempt, or insult.
Usage Context
This emoji is frequently used to convey anger, rejection, or a 'go away' sentiment in casual text conversations. Because it is highly offensive, it is rarely used in professional communication and is often deployed to jokingly shut down a conversation or react to something frustrating. It is functionally similar to 👎 but carries significantly more hostility.
History
Despite being one of the most requested additions to the emoji set for years, the middle finger was not officially added to the Unicode standard until 2014 as part of Unicode 7.0. Its inclusion followed long-standing public debate regarding the necessity of representing offensive physical gestures in digital communication.
Details
Glyph
🖕🏾
Unicode
U+1F595 U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f595_1f3fe:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-single-finger
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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