The thumbs down: medium-dark skin tone is basically the internet’s “hard pass” button in hand form. It says nope, nah, not a vibe—served with a rich, medium-dark skin tone that makes the gesture feel personal and expressive. Expect it when someone’s shutting down a bad take, a cursed idea, or that pineapple-on-pizza agenda you keep pushing.
On socials, it fuels ratio attempts (👎👎 under a spicy post), stands in for a YouTube-style dislike, and pairs perfectly with “this ain’t it, chief” or the classic “boo, tomatoes.” It can be playful or petty: used sarcastically between friends, dramatically in fandom wars, or as a quick downvote in chats and group polls. People also drop it after cringey DMs, awkward jokes, or to roast themselves when they just posted an L.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a left hand with the back of the hand facing you, thumb pitched straight down, smooth rounded contours, subtle crease lines, and soft shading in a deep brown gradient—no sleeve, clean cut at the wrist. Think sleek Apple styling: slightly 3D, glossy vibes, instantly recognizable in a lineup of reactions, like a tiny gladiator verdict (gladiator lore note: historians debate the exact ancient meaning, but the pop-culture signal is clear—disapproval).
The Thumbs Down 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) | 3423 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 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F44E, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128078, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8E, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 8E, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 216, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC4E, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc4e, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56398, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F44E 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F44E, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128078, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F44E\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x8e\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC4E\uD83C\uDFFE" |
