The middle finger emoji is the universal nope-with-attitude—aka the digital way to flip the bird without leaving the chat. It’s the go-to for spicy clapbacks, mock outrage, and those times you want to say “respectfully, no” with maximum brevity. People drop it after getting ghosted, when their team blows a lead, or whenever autocorrect acts possessed. Online, it often shows up ironically—paired with a smiling face, hearts, or “bestie” energy to soften the sting. Memes use it as the final frame: the one-finger mic drop that says “I’m done here” without typing a whole paragraph. Some friends even trade it flirtatiously or playfully during roast battles; context is everything.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand with the back facing you, classic cartoon-yellow skin by default, rounded knuckles, soft shading, and one perfectly vertical middle finger while the other fingers curl into a tight fist with the thumb tucked. The pose is front-on and unmistakable—no wrist, no jewelry, just that bold, defiant digit. Skin tone modifiers are supported, but the attitude stays the same across vendors. Culturally, the gesture goes way back (think ancient Greece and Rome’s digitus impudicus), so its chaotic energy predates Wi‑Fi by a couple millennia. In chats, it can read as anger, sarcasm, deadpan humor, petty energy, or a joking “love u, mean it” to your most roast-happy friend. TL;DR: it’s the internet’s shortest, spiciest boundary.
Also known as the one-finger salute.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 418 of 2393 |
| 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :reversed_v: |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Gesture Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🖕 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🖕 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🖕 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🖕 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f595 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F595 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128405 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x95 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 95 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 225 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD95 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd95 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56725 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F595 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F595 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128405 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F595" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x95" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD95" |
