The person gesturing NO: dark skin tone emoji is the universal “absolutely not” in picture form—arms crossed in a big X, face set to firm, energy set to boundary. On Apple/iOS, it’s a bust-up view with deep brown skin, a serious or slightly frowny expression, and sleeves in the red/pink family, making that crossed-arm X pop like a talent-show buzzer. No props, no distractions—just a crisp, front-facing pose that says: halt, denied, not today. It’s the go-to for shutting down bad ideas, dodging chaos, or announcing your inner bouncer is on duty.
In texting and meme-land, this is the “hard pass,” “respectfully, no,” and “nope.wav” emoji all rolled into one. It pairs beautifully with red-flag callouts, shady invitations, or your friend’s “let’s do a 6 a.m. hot yoga” proposal. People use it dramatically (reality-TV-judge vibes), sarcastically (“me? going outside? ❌”), and even playfully flirty when teasing a boundary in banter. Cultural bonus: that X-armed pose echoes the Japanese “NG” (No Good) gesture, made famous on variety shows—very “cut the cameras, deadass.” And the dark skin tone variation is a favorite for expressing yourself authentically while delivering a stylish shutdown.
On social feeds, it often captions clips of dealbreakers, bold icks, or chaotic takes that deserve an instant veto. Think: “we do NOT care” energy, “not today, Satan” dramatics, and “I said what I said” conviction, all in one unmistakable silhouette.
The Face with No Good Gesture emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3910 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: | Black Face with No Good Gesture Woman Gesturing NO: Dark Skin Tone person gesturing NO: dark skin tone woman gesturing NO: dark skin tone |
| 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) | 1f645, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F645, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128581, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x85, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 85, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 205, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE45, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde45, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56901, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F645 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F645, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128581, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F645\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x85\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE45\uD83C\uDFFF" |
