Middle finger: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-toned hand shown with the middle finger raised and the palm facing inward. This gesture is widely recognized as a bold, confrontational sign of disrespect or defiance.

Usage Context

Used to express intense frustration, anger, or to dismiss someone entirely. It serves as the digital equivalent of a verbal insult and is often deployed during heated arguments or to signal that the sender is finished with a conversation. It is much more aggressive than the 👎 or 😠 emojis.

History

While the middle finger gesture dates back to ancient Greece, the emoji version was officially added to the Unicode standard in 2014. Its inclusion followed years of high-demand petitions from users who felt standard digital communication lacked a direct way to convey blunt hostility.

Details

Glyph

🖕🏿

Unicode

U+1F595 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f595_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD95;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-single-finger

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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