Thumbs down: light skin tone Emoji
People
A hand showing a thumb pointing straight down, rendered with a light skin tone. It features a clenched fist with the thumb extended downward in a classic gesture of disapproval.
Usage Context
Used to express negative feedback, rejection, or lack of enthusiasm for a topic. While it is the direct opposite of 👍, it is often used in comment sections and review systems to signal that content is poor or that the user disagrees with a post. Its meaning remains consistent across most digital platforms as a quick way to cast a vote against something.
History
The thumbs down gesture traces its roots back to ancient Roman gladiatorial games, where it was famously used to decide the fate of a defeated fighter. As an emoji, it was added to the Unicode standard to provide a universal way to offer negative feedback in text-based communication, eventually gaining skin tone modifiers in 2016 to better represent diverse users.
Details
Glyph
👎🏻
Unicode
U+1F44E U+1F3FB
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f44e_1f3fb:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-closed
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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