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👎️Thumbs Down Emoji
👎️ thumbs down — U+1F44E U+FE0F, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 6 fingers closed emojis under People & Body.
What 👎️ thumbs down means
Approval, refusal, and force. 👍 is the flashpoint: fine as confirmation in most workplaces, but read by a lot of younger users as curt or sarcastic, closer to ending a conversation than agreeing with it. ✊ carries protest and solidarity depending on context, while 🤛 and 🤜 are usually just a fist bump between friends.
Unicode tags this one -1, bad and dislike and files it under People & Body → Fingers Closed.
Copy variants
thumbs down carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 👎️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 👎U+1F44Ethumbs down
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F44E U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👎️ | |
| HTML decimal | 👎️ | |
| CSS | \1F44E\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F44E}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F44E\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC4E\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f44e}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F44E}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F44E}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%8E%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 8E EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC4E FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Rju+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128078 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
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 “thumbs down”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “-1”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f44eand 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 👎️ thumbs down emoji mean?+
👎️ is the thumbs down emoji, tagged -1, bad and dislike. Approval, refusal, and force. 👍 is the flashpoint: fine as confirmation in most workplaces, but read by a lot of younger users as curt or sarcastic, closer to ending a conversation than agreeing with it. ✊ carries protest and solidarity depending on context, while 🤛 and 🤜 are usually just a fist bump between friends.
What is the Unicode code for 👎️?+
thumbs down is U+1F44E U+FE0F. In HTML that is 👎️, in CSS \1F44E\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F44E}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👎️ emoji added?+
thumbs down got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Fingers Closed in People & Body.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👎️ thumbs down.