The thumbs up: medium skin tone (👍🏽) is the internet’s quick nod of approval—your digital “yup,” “sounds good,” and “we ball” all rolled into one. It says thanks, agreement, or “message received,” and in work chats it doubles as the world’s fastest status update. Depending on context, it can feel warmly supportive or hilariously curt—the infamous “dad-text”/“boomer thumbs” energy that ends a 12-line paragraph with a single pixelated okay. It’s also used ironically after chaos (“plane delayed 6 hours 👍🏽”) or as a polite exit when you’ve got nothing else to add.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand with a warm medium-brown gradient, fingers curled into a fist, thumb standing tall, rounded thumbnail visible, and soft shading around the knuckles and wrist—no sleeve, clean edges, slight side angle. The pose feels confident but chill, like a selfie-ready hand sign, instantly recognizable in chats and reaction bars. People spam it in pairs for hype, stack it with ✅ or 🔥 for extra approval energy, or drop a lone 👍🏽 to acknowledge without derailing the thread. Meme-wise, it can read as dry, sarcastic, or awkwardly flirty depending on timing and punctuation; the single thumbs up after being roasted is peak “I’m fine.” IRL note: while it’s broadly positive online, the thumbs-up gesture can be rude in some regions, so cross-cultural context matters.
The Thumbs Up Sign emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2179 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: | Olive Toned 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44D, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128077, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8D, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 215, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4D, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4d, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56397, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44D 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44D, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128077, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44D\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4D\uD83C\uDFFD" |
