The thumbs down: medium-light skin tone emoji is the universal “nope” button—perfect for shutting down bad takes, weak sauce ideas, or a movie ending that fumbled the bag. It’s the digital boo hiss, often dropped in chats, tweets, and comments when something deserves a swift decline, a polite veto, or a full-on yikes. People use it unironically to vote against a plan, and ironically to roast a friend’s pineapple-on-pizza agenda or a cringe post that belongs in the shadow realm.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a left-facing hand with a clenched fist and the thumb pointed straight down, shown from the back of the hand with rounded knuckles and soft, realistic shading. The medium-light skin tone gives it a peachy-beige gradient that looks like a glossy sticker—no sleeve, just clean lines and a confident “nah.” It’s instantly recognizable in feeds: a tidy, 3D-ish hand serving visual disapproval with zero ambiguity.
Culturally, it channels pop-culture memories of Siskel & Ebert’s infamous “thumbs down,” plus the age-old (if Hollywood-ified) image of a Roman crowd booing the performance. Online, it pairs beautifully with 🤡, 🗑️, or “ratio” replies for maximum downvote energy, and it’s a go-to reaction for “L take” discourse. Used playfully, dramatically, or sarcastically, it says: hard pass, do not recommend, thank you next.
The Thumbs Down 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) | 3421 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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| Previous Names: | Light Brown 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44E, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128078, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8E, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8E, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 216, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4E, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4e, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56398, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44E 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44E, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128078, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44E\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8e\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4E\uD83C\uDFFC" |
