U+1F595 U+1F3FD
๐๐ฝ Middle finger: medium skin tone
- Category
- People & Body
- Subcategory
- Single Finger Gestures
- Shortcode
- Unicode version
- 8.0 (2015)
- Emoji version
- 1.0 (2015)
- Status
- fully-qualified
What the ๐๐ฝ emoji means
A raised middle finger. An insult, and one of the very few emoji whose meaning is offensive and nothing else.
The gesture is rude wherever it is understood; some platforms keep it out of the picker or draw it deliberately flat. Between close friends it can pass as joking, but there is no polite reading to retreat to.
Chat examples
What ๐๐ฝ 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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๐
middle finger
U+1F595 -
๐ฝ
skin tone
U+1F3FD
Will your readers see ๐๐ฝ
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 ๐๐ฝ emoji is used
The ๐๐ฝ 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 โ below you can see how middle finger: medium skin tone is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.
How the smiley looks on different platforms
- ๐๐ฝ Your deviceNative system font
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Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 ๐พ SVG
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OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 ๐พ SVG
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Twemoji CC BY 4.0 ๐พ 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 | middle finger: medium skin tone |
|---|---|
| ะ ัััะบะธะน | ััะตะดะฝะธะน ะฟะฐะปะตั: ััะตะดะฝะธะน ัะพะฝ ะบะพะถะธ |
| Deutsch | Mittelfinger: mittlere Hautfarbe |
| Espaรฑol | dedo corazรณn hacia arriba: tono de piel medio |
| Franรงais | doigt dโhonneurโฏ: peau lรฉgรจrement mate |
| Polski | ลrodkowy palec: karnacja ลrednia |
| Dansk | langefinger: medium teint |
| ะฃะบัะฐัะฝััะบะฐ | ัะตัะตะดะฝัะน ะฟะฐะปะตัั: ะฟะพะผััะฝะธะน ัะพะฝ ัะบััะธ |
| Portuguรชs | dedo do meio: pele morena |
Unicode CLDR 48