Thumbs down: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A hand making a downward-pointing gesture with a medium skin tone. The thumb is firmly pressed against the side of the fist, signaling strong disapproval, rejection, or a negative rating.
Usage Context
Widely used across social media platforms to express disagreement, denote a bad review, or signal that a user is unhappy with specific content. It serves as the direct opposite to the 👍 emoji and is frequently used to provide quick, non-verbal feedback on posts or comments.
History
The thumbs down gesture traces its roots back to ancient gladiatorial games as a signal for death or defeat. In the digital age, it became a staple of early internet forums and rating systems, officially joining the Unicode standard in 2010 before gaining skin tone modifiers in 2015.
Details
Glyph
👎🏽
Unicode
U+1F44E U+1F3FD
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f44e_1f3fd:
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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