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🖕 Middle finger

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🖕 Emoji meaning

Middle finger, insult, provocation, rudeness.

Table of Contents

  1.  Meaning
  2.  Confused With
  3.  Variants
  4.  Emoji History
  5.  Similar Emojis
  6.  Platforms
  7.  Emoji Details
  8.  Comments

🖕 Meaning

In western culture, the middle finger smiley is used as a rude and offensive gesture.

Examples

  • Enough already! 🖕
  • Are you serious? 🖕
  • That was really unnecessary. 🖕

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Commonly confused with

Direction Variant

Middle finger
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Backhand index pointing down

Backhand index down vs middle finger; at a glance, users may mis-tap and send a more offensive gesture.

Variants

Skin tones
Middle finger
Middle finger: light skin tone
Middle finger: medium-light skin tone
Middle finger: medium skin tone
Middle finger: medium-dark skin tone
Middle finger: dark skin tone

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Middle finger” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ middle

Keywords removed

- middle finger

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ middle finger

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

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ finger + hand

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

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- middle finger

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Comments

(2) Comments

  • It means: Fuck off!

  • Mind your own business.