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Thumb down smiley

👎 Thumbs down

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👎 Emoji meaning

That was a flop! Rejection, disapproval, reluctance.

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👎 Meaning

That was really bad! Thumb turned down stands for rejection, disapproval and dislike. Also known as the false death myth meaning with Roman gladiators.

Examples

That idea wasn't very good. 👎
Do you think this is lame too? 👎
Oh no, that did not go well at all! 👎

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Thumbs down

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Thumbs down vs thumbs up; opposite meanings but nearly identical shape; mis-tap can reverse sentiment.

Thumbs down

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Person gesturing NO

Person gesturing NO vs thumbs down; both explicitly signal rejection or disagreement.

Variants

Skin tones

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Thumbs down” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ bad + dislike + good + no + nope + thumbs

Keywords removed

- thumbs down

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ thumbs down

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ -1 + down + hand + thumb

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- -1 - thumbs down

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