Thumbs down: medium-light skin tone Emoji
People
A hand gesture with the thumb pointing downward, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. It serves as a visual indicator of disapproval, rejection, or a negative rating.
Usage Context
This is the go-to sign for signaling that something is bad, incorrect, or unwanted. It functions as the direct opposite of the 👍 emoji, appearing frequently in comment threads, reviews, and messaging apps to express disagreement or dismissive feedback.
History
The original thumbs down icon traces back to ancient Roman gladiator games, where the gesture supposedly signaled that a fallen fighter should be killed. In modern digital communication, it was codified into Unicode in 2010, eventually gaining diverse skin tone options in 2016 to better match the wide range of global users.
Details
Glyph
👎🏼
Unicode
U+1F44E U+1F3FC
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f44e_1f3fc:
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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