This is the big-circle-of-approval emoji, starring a person throwing their arms over their head to make an O. Think of it as the human version of a green check mark: yes, approved, all clear, we good. Online, people use it to say “OK then,” “works for me,” or to celebrate a win with a tidy, visual mic-drop. It can also swing sarcastic—paired with a dry caption, it reads like “sure, Jan,” that meme-level polite-but-not-really agreement.
On Apple devices, the medium skin tone version shows a front-facing person with a slight smile, wearing a blue top, arms curved above the head so the hands form a clean O shape. It’s crisp, rounded, and instantly recognizable—like the “O” in the YMCA dance or the Japanese maru symbol for “correct,” which inspired the pose alongside its sibling, the X-armed “person gesturing NO.” Don’t confuse it with the OK hand sign (👌); this one’s full-bodied drama, more “approved by the committee” than “chef’s kiss.” Great for captions, story reactions, or that moment when your plans are locked in and you’re announcing it to the group chat with Olympic-level enthusiasm.
The Face with OK Gesture emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3915 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: | Olive Toned Face with OK Gesture Woman Gesturing OK: Medium Skin Tone person gesturing OK: medium skin tone woman gesturing OK: medium skin tone |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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) | 1f646, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F646, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128582, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x86, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 86, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 206, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE46, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde46, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56902, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F646 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F646, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128582, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F646\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x86\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE46\uD83C\uDFFD" |
