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🖕Middle Finger Emoji
The middle finger emoji 🖕 carries the codepoint U+1F595 and has been in the standard since Emoji 1.0 (2015). It belongs to People & Body → Finger Pointing.
What 🖕 middle finger means
Pointing at something - a link above, a reply below, the person who said the stupid thing. 👉👈 used together became the shy, nervous gesture in text posts, and 🫵, added in 2021, points straight out of the screen at you. 🖕 reached Unicode in 2014, in the batch imported from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts.
Unicode tags this one finger, hand and middle and files it under People & Body → Finger Pointing.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F595 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🖕 | |
| HTML decimal | 🖕 | |
| CSS | \1F595 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F595} | |
| Python | \U0001F595 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDD95 | |
| Rust | \u{1f595} | |
| Swift | \u{1F595} | |
| PHP | \u{1F595} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%96%95 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 96 95 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DD95 | |
| Base64 | 8J+WlQ== | |
| Decimal | 128405 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Skin-tone variants
The 🖕 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 🖕
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “middle finger”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “finger”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f595and Enter. - HTML — paste
🖕.
How 🖕 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🖕Apple
- 🖕Segoe
- 🖕Noto
- 🖕System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🖕 middle finger emoji mean?+
🖕 is the middle finger emoji, tagged finger, hand and middle. Pointing at something - a link above, a reply below, the person who said the stupid thing. 👉👈 used together became the shy, nervous gesture in text posts, and 🫵, added in 2021, points straight out of the screen at you. 🖕 reached Unicode in 2014, in the batch imported from the Wingdings and Webdings fonts.
What is the Unicode code for 🖕?+
middle finger is U+1F595. In HTML that is 🖕, in CSS \1F595, and in JavaScript \u{1F595}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🖕 emoji added?+
middle finger got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Finger Pointing in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🖕 middle finger.