The middle finger: medium-dark skin tone emoji is the internet’s one-finger mic drop—equal parts petty, spicy, and spectacularly clear. It’s thrown into chats when someone spoils a finale, your boss says “circle back,” or your phone updates itself at 2% battery. Used straight, it’s defiance; used with friends, it can be mock-dramatic or playfully bratty—like a wink, but with… attitude. In meme land, it’s the punctuation for “I said what I said,” the instant clapback to trolls, and the go-to reaction when Monday shows up uninvited.
On Apple/iOS, the hand shows the back of the palm in a warm medium-dark brown, with the middle finger standing tall front-and-center while the other fingers curl down neatly. Subtle gradients give the knuckles and nail beds a soft, rounded 3D look, and the thumb tucks in with clean, cartoon-styled shading. No props, no sleeve—just a crisp, vertical pose that reads unmistakably from any distance. The color is rich and even, making the gesture pop in dark mode or light mode alike.
Culturally, this is the ancient “one-finger salute” (yep, it goes back to Rome and beyond) repackaged for DMs, group chats, and comments. It shows up sarcastically under hot takes, pairs beautifully with the clown or skull emoji for meme-level dramatics, and occasionally doubles as flirty-teasing chaos between friends who know the vibe. Add a crying-laughing face and it becomes “I’m mad, but I’m kidding—mostly.” Add a fire or explosion and it’s pure rage-quit energy.
The Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3484 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: | Darker Brown 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F595, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128405, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x95, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 95, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 225, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD95, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd95, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56725, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F595 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F595, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128405, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F595\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x95\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD95\uD83C\uDFFE" |
