The thumbs down: light skin tone emoji is the internet’s polite-but-firm nope, perfect for signaling “hard pass,” “L take,” or a dramatic boo from the cheap seats. It’s the go-to when a take is ice-cold, a movie trailer looks mid, or your friend suggests pineapple on pizza and you need to veto with flair. In chats and timelines, it doubles as a mini downvote, the shorthand for “not the vibe,” and often rides alongside words like yikes, respectfully no, or big oof. Sarcastically, people drop it after their own terrible pun, or toss it playfully at a crush’s cheesy line to keep the banter spicy but safe.
On Apple devices, this shows a right hand in a tight fist with the thumb extended straight downward, back of the hand facing you, rendered in Apple’s soft 3D-ish shading. In the light skin tone variant, it’s a pale peach-beige with smooth gradients, rounded knuckles, and a gentle wrist curve that makes the gesture feel unmistakable even at tiny sizes. No cuff or accessories—just a clean, glossy hand with subtle shadows that read instantly as “dislike.”
Pop-culturally, it evokes that gladiator-era “thumbs down means doom” image (history nerds will note debates about the real gesture), Simon Cowell–style buzzer energy, and a dash of Rotten Tomatoes splat. On social, it’s used to signal “ratio incoming,” to vote plans off the island in group chats, or to humorously boo your own life choices after buying concert tickets you can’t afford. Deployed in pairs or spammed in a line, it turns from simple disapproval into full-on crowd booing—digital tomatoes not included.
The Thumbs Down Sign emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1953 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 | |
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| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | White Thumbs Down 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) | 1f44e, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44E, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128078, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8E, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8E, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 216, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4E, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4e, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56398, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44E 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44E, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128078, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44E\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8e\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4E\uD83C\uDFFB" |
