The "middle finger: dark skin tone" emoji is the digital version of flipping the birdโcompact, unmistakable, and loaded with IDGAF energy. People drop it in texts to clap back at trolls, punctuate a rage-quit, or jokingly roast a close friend with an "ily, but also no" vibe. On social feeds, it pairs perfectly with petty captions, reaction memes, and that one reply when "respectfully" just wonโt cut it. Itโs also used ironicallyโthink faux-dramatic goodbyes, playful banter, or as a meme-y mic drop when someone states the obvious.
On Apple/iOS, itโs a back-of-the-hand view with a deep brown tone, the middle finger shooting straight up while the other fingers curl tight and the thumb tucks across the palm. The styling is smooth and slightly 3D, with rounded knuckles, soft gradients, and a clean silhouette that stands out even at tiny sizesโno sleeves, no props, just pure attitude. You might recognize it instantly from the centered, upright pose and the subtle shading that makes the single raised digit the star of the show. Culturally, the gesture goes way back to ancient Rome and Greece as the notorious digitus impudicus, so yes, itโs been serving side-eye for millennia. Use it for boundary-setting, gallows humor, or that last-word energyโbut remember, this little icon can escalate a convo faster than caps lock.
The Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3485 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Black Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ฟ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ฟ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🖕 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🖕 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f595, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F595, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128405, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x95, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 95, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 225, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD95, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd95, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56725, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F595 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F595, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128405, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F595\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x95\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD95\uD83C\uDFFF" |
