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👍️Thumbs Up Emoji
👍️ thumbs up — U+1F44D U+FE0F, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 6 fingers closed emojis under People & Body.
What 👍️ thumbs up 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, good and hand and files it under People & Body → Fingers Closed.
Copy variants
thumbs up 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+1F44Dthumbs up
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F44D U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👍️ | |
| HTML decimal | 👍️ | |
| CSS | \1F44D\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F44D}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F44D\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC4D\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f44d}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F44D}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F44D}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%8D%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 8D EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC4D FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Rje+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128077 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 up”. - 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 type1f44dand 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 up emoji mean?+
👍️ is the thumbs up emoji, tagged +1, good and hand. 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 up is U+1F44D U+FE0F. In HTML that is 👍️, in CSS \1F44D\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F44D}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👍️ emoji added?+
thumbs up 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 up.