The middle finger: medium skin tone is the digital one‑finger salute—perfect for petty clapbacks, spicy banter, or when autocorrect isn’t strong enough to capture your mood. People drop it in group chats after getting hit with a 7 a.m. meeting invite, or ironically at a bestie who roasted their outfit with a little too much confidence. It can read angry, jokey, or mock‑dramatic depending on the context and who’s on the receiving end—tone is everything, so use with caution and a wink.
On Apple devices, it’s a tan‑brown hand shown from the back, middle finger proudly vertical, other fingers curled tight with the thumb tucked, finished with soft gradients and rounded knuckle shading that scream iOS polish. The clean, front‑and‑center pose makes it instantly recognizable mid‑scroll, whether you’re replying “stay mad” or punctuating a meme with nuclear-level sarcasm. Historically, the gesture predates the internet by centuries (hello, ancient Greco‑Roman shade), but it thrives online as a fast, visual “nope” that needs no translation. Users often pair it with a skull, clown, or fire emoji to upgrade the drama, or drop it solo as the punchline to a ratio attempt gone wrong. Flirtatious? Sometimes—think playful enemies‑to‑lovers banter—but mostly it’s the universal sign for “not today, Satan,” now in a skin tone that matches your vibe.
The Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3483 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: | Olive Toned Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 1f595, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F595, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128405, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x95, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 95, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 225, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD95, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd95, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56725, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F595 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F595, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128405, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F595\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x95\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD95\uD83C\uDFFD" |
