U+1F44D U+1F3FD
👍🏽 Thumbs up: medium skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Closed Hands
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 8.0 (2015)
- Emoji version
- 1.0 (2015)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the 👍🏽 emoji means
A raised thumb. Signals agreement, approval or «got it». In parts of the Middle East it retains an offensive reading, and in some online circles a bare thumbs up now sounds curt or passive-aggressive.
Handy for closing a conversation without extra words. If you want to sound warm rather than merely acknowledging, add a word or pick ❤️ or 🙌 instead.
Chat examples
What 👍🏽 is made of
This symbol is written with several code points rather than one. Here is what stands behind it, in order.
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👍
thumbs up
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🏽
skin tone
U+1F3FD
Will your readers see 👍🏽
The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.
- Apple always there
- Google always there
- Microsoft always there
- Samsung always there
Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.
Where the 👍🏽 emoji is used
The 👍🏽 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how thumbs up: medium skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- 👍🏽 Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji
Apache License 2.0
💾 SVG
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OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
💾 SVG
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Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
💾 SVG
Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.
Emoji codes for developers
Name in other languages
| English | thumbs up: medium skin tone |
|---|---|
| Русский | большой палец вверх: средний тон кожи |
| Deutsch | Daumen hoch: mittlere Hautfarbe |
| Español | pulgar hacia arriba: tono de piel medio |
| Français | pouce vers le haut : peau légèrement mate |
| Polski | kciuk w górę: karnacja średnia |
| Dansk | tommelfinger op: medium teint |
| Українська | великі пальці вгору: помірний тон шкіри |
| Português | polegar para cima: pele morena |
Unicode CLDR 48