Person gesturing no: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium skin tone forming an 'X' shape with their arms in front of their chest. The figure displays a clear, non-verbal sign of refusal, disapproval, or a direct 'no'.

Usage Context

Widely used in digital messaging to turn down an invitation, signal disagreement, or tell someone to stop what they are doing. It is the human-form counterpart to the 🚫 prohibited sign and pairs well with the 🙅‍♂️ or 🙅‍♀️ gender-specific variants to clarify the sender's intent.

History

This gesture is a common bodily signifier in Japanese culture used to indicate that something is wrong or forbidden. It was brought into the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the push to represent common human physical reactions and expressions in text-based communication.

Details

Glyph

🙅🏽

Unicode

U+1F645 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f645_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE45;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

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

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