Thumbs down: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-toned hand making a downward-pointing gesture with the thumb extended. This graphic depicts a universal sign of disapproval or rejection.

Usage Context

Used to express disagreement, express a negative opinion, or indicate that something is incorrect or unwelcome. It serves as the direct antonym to 👍🏿 and is frequently used to vote down content in social media threads or highlight dissatisfaction with a product or idea.

History

While the standard thumbs down has existed since Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the ability to modify skin tones was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This update allowed users to better represent diverse human characteristics across digital platforms, bringing nuance to non-verbal communication in messaging apps.

Details

Glyph

👎🏿

Unicode

U+1F44E U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44e_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-closed

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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