In chat, the medium-light skin thumbs up is the one-tap “handled”—approval, agreement, “copy,” “bet,” “say less,” and the trusty “noted.” As a Slack or Discord reaction, it’s the office-safe way to close a thread without spawning another meeting; on social feeds, it’s the polite cheer from the sidelines. But context can flip it: drop a lone 👍 with a period and it can read low‑key passive‑aggressive, and paired with a dry “great” it becomes a sarcasm engine. It also carries the Facebook Like aura and the echo of movie critics’ “two thumbs up,” so it often doubles as a bite-size review.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand in slight three‑quarter view with the back of the hand facing you, thumb raised and the other fingers tucked in; a clean little thumbnail is visible, and the medium‑light tone shows as a smooth peach‑beige gradient. The whole thing is glossy, rounded, and uncluttered in that signature iOS style—no sleeve, no props, just the gesture. Think of it as the IRL Like button, shrunk to a tidy signal.
Picking the medium‑light tone personalizes the nod—whether for representation or to keep your reaction palette consistent. Whether you’re hyping a friend’s win, acknowledging a task, or delivering the most polite dismissal in the group chat, this beige booster gets the point across fast.
The Thumbs Up Sign emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2178 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: | Light Brown Thumbs Up Sign |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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) | 1f44d, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44D, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128077, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8D, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 215, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4D, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4d, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56397, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44D 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44D, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128077, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44D\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4D\uD83C\uDFFC" |
