The OK hand: medium-dark skin tone emoji is that confident little hand gesture saying, “All good, nailed it, zero notes.” People drop it to approve a plan, hype a flawless outfit, or give food pics a virtual taste test—like a digital “perfecto.” It also works ironically, as in “Everything is fine 👌🏾” when everything is definitely not fine (cue the burning-room meme). In flirty chats, it can be a playful green light; in gaming or sports, it’s a quick GG or “shot’s clean.” You’ll also see it used as a wink to the old “circle game” and as a stand-in for “chef’s kiss” energy, even though the actual chef’s kiss emoji is a different hand.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand with the thumb and index finger forming a crisp, round O, the other three fingers fanned upward, palm facing slightly outward at a gentle angle. The medium-dark skin tone shows a warm brown gradient with soft highlights, rounded edges, and that signature Apple smooth shading—no sleeve, just the wrist fading off. It reads friendly, polished, and instantly recognizable in tiny sizes. IRL context alert: scuba divers use this to mean “I’m OK” (not “up we go,” which is thumbs-up), while in some countries this gesture can be rude—so context and audience matter. It also got tangled in late-2010s U.S. discourse when trolls and extremists tried to co-opt it, so people sometimes use it thoughtfully. Most of the time online, though, it’s pure approval, perfection, and a little bit of smug sparkle.
The OK Hand Sign emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3445 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: | Deeper Brown OK Hand Sign OK Hand: Medium-Dark Skin Tone OK hand: medium-dark skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👌🏾 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👌🏾 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👌 🏾 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👌 🏾 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f44c, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44C, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128076, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8C, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 214, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4C, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4c, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56396, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44C 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44C, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128076, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44C\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4C\uD83C\uDFFE" |
