👎Thumbs Down Emoji
Generally, 👎 means you don't agree with something or you think it's bad. It’s a simple way to say you dislike it.
The 👎 emoji shows a hand with a thumb extended downwards.
- Unicode
- U+1F44E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :-1:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👎 Thumbs Down emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as bad emoji, thumb down emoji.
Thumbs Down emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the thumbs down has been drawn in 4 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Thumbs Down emoji skin tones
👎 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Thumbs Down emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :-1:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the thumbs down, code point U+1F44E.
How to type the 👎 Thumbs Down emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Thumbs Down emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Thumbs Down emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around thumbs down for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 👎 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 👎 means in other countries
Reads as plain disapproval everywhere it’s used, the only real variable is how harsh that lands.
a quick, low-stakes “nope” or “not into it,” usually taken lightly
can feel abrupt as a solo reply to a colleague’s idea, comes across as a hard veto
Before you send it: Fine among friends; in professional threads, add a line explaining why so it doesn’t read as a flat rejection.
What 👎 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
👎 vs 👍 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
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.
Unicode name: Thumbs Up
Code: U+1F44D · added 2010
Shortcode: :+1:
Generally, it means "I agree" or "That's good.
Where the 👎 Thumbs Down 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+1F44E 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 E700, KDDI au EAD5, SoftBank E421.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Thumbs Down was approved as U+1F44E 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.