Middle finger Emoji

People

A hand gesture featuring the middle finger extended upward with the remaining fingers curled into a fist. It is the universal sign for extreme frustration, defiance, or an insult.

Usage Context

Widely used in digital chat to tell someone off or express intense annoyance. It serves as a blunt non-verbal retort, often used when words feel insufficient. It is frequently sent alongside emojis like 😠 or 😤 to drive home a point of heated disagreement.

History

Though the gesture itself dates back to ancient Greece as a sign of disrespect, its digital version was a highly requested addition to the Unicode standard. It was finally approved in Unicode 7.0 in 2014, ending a long period where users had to rely on text-based emoticons to express the same sentiment.

Details

Glyph

🖕

Unicode

U+1F595

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f595:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD95;

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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