Thumbs down: medium-dark skin tone Emoji
People
A hand gesture with a closed fist and the thumb pointing directly downward, rendered here in a medium-dark skin tone. It serves as a visual rejection, expression of disapproval, or a signal that something is substandard.
Usage Context
Widely used across social media to indicate a negative reaction or to vote down content. It acts as the direct opposite of the 👍 emoji. In casual messaging, it is a quick way to say no, express disappointment, or shut down a bad idea without typing out a full sentence.
History
While the thumbs down gesture has been associated with disapproval for centuries, this specific digital icon was added to the Unicode standard as part of the expansion of skin tone modifiers in 2015. It reflects the evolution of gesture-based communication in early internet forums and rating systems where binary feedback was essential.
Details
Glyph
👎🏾
Unicode
U+1F44E U+1F3FE
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f44e_1f3fe:
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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