Thumbs down: light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand showing a thumb pointing straight down, rendered with a light skin tone. It features a clenched fist with the thumb extended downward in a classic gesture of disapproval.

Usage Context

Used to express negative feedback, rejection, or lack of enthusiasm for a topic. While it is the direct opposite of 👍, it is often used in comment sections and review systems to signal that content is poor or that the user disagrees with a post. Its meaning remains consistent across most digital platforms as a quick way to cast a vote against something.

History

The thumbs down gesture traces its roots back to ancient Roman gladiatorial games, where it was famously used to decide the fate of a defeated fighter. As an emoji, it was added to the Unicode standard to provide a universal way to offer negative feedback in text-based communication, eventually gaining skin tone modifiers in 2016 to better represent diverse users.

Details

Glyph

👎🏻

Unicode

U+1F44E U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f44e_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC4E;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-closed

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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