People & Body · Emoji 0.6
👍Thumbs Up Emoji
Generally, it means "I agree" or "That's good." People use it to show they approve of something you said or did.
Also searched as thumb up emoji.
The 👍 emoji is basically a thumbs-up gesture.
- Unicode
- U+1F44D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :+1:
- Skin tones
- Yes
- Popularity
- #4 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 👍 Thumbs Up emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
People also look for it as yes emoji, thumbs emoji, like emoji.
02 — Platforms
Thumbs Up emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F44D. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Thumbs Up emoji skin tones
👍 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Thumbs Up emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :+1:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F44D.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👍 Thumbs Up emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Thumbs Up emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the thumbs up as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Thumbs Up emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around thumbs up for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👍, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
09 — In conversation
What 👍 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
10 — Around the world
What 👍 means in other countries
A friendly “got it” in most of the world, but it carries an insulting history in a few regions and reads flat in others.
historically read as a crude insult, similar in weight to a raised middle finger
older generations may still take it as offensive, though everyday chat use has softened this
a solo reply to a real question can land as dismissive rather than genuinely agreeing
Before you send it: Great for confirming plans with friends; pair with a word or two in work threads so it doesn’t read as brush-off.
11 — Apps
What 👍 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F44D, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
13 — Difference
👍 vs 👎 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Thumbs Up
Code: U+1F44D · added 2010
Shortcode: :+1:
Generally, it means "I agree" or "That's good."
Unicode name: Thumbs Down
Code: U+1F44E · added 2010
Shortcode: :-1:
Generally, 👎 means you don't agree with something or you think it's bad.
14 — History
Where the 👍 Thumbs Up emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F44D never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👍 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E727, KDDI au E4F9, SoftBank E00E.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Thumbs Up was approved as U+1F44D and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👍 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
15 — FAQ