The thumbs up: medium-dark skin tone is the internet’s universal stamp of approval—short, sweet, and a little bit iconic. It says yes, solid, works for me, and bet without wasting a single extra bubble in your chat. In meme mode, a lone 👍🏾 can be hilariously dry or low-key passive-aggressive—perfect for the “noted.” reply when you’re done debating in the group chat. It can also be supportive and warm, especially when paired with fire or 100 for that extra hype.
On Apple devices, this is a right-facing hand with a cocoa-brown finish, fingers curled into a fist, the thumb standing tall, soft shading around the knuckles, and a clean, glossy-but-not-shiny Apple look. No sleeve, no fuss—just a confident, slightly 3D hand that reads instantly at any size. It’s the same classic gesture you’ve seen on hitchhiking signs and the OG Facebook Like, though the Roman arena “thumbs up” story is pop-culture famous and historically fuzzy. Technically, this shade uses the Unicode skin tone modifier based on Fitzpatrick Type-5, so you get that medium-dark tone when you long-press and pick your shade.
People use 👍🏾 to confirm plans, react in Slack or Teams, or end a thread with corporate efficiency. It also shows up in captions for ironic emphasis—“Love that for me 👍🏾”—and in comment sections as a quick “I see you.” For maximum vibe, stack it with ✅, 💯, or 🔥 to turn quiet approval into loud applause.
The Thumbs Up 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) | 3420 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | Deeper Brown Thumbs Up Sign |
| 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) | 1f44d, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44D, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128077, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8D, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 215, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4D, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4d, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56397, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44D 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44D, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128077, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44D\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8d\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4D\uD83C\uDFFE" |
