🖕Middle Finger Emoji
Basically, it’s a really bad insult. It’s a way to show extreme anger or disagreement.
The 🖕 emoji, also known as the middle finger gesture, is a very rude and offensive symbol.
- Unicode
- U+1F595
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :middle_finger:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🖕 Middle Finger emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
Middle Finger emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the middle finger has been drawn in 3 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.
Middle Finger emoji skin tones
🖕 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Middle Finger 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 :middle_finger:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F595.
How to type the 🖕 Middle Finger emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Middle Finger 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
Middle Finger emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around middle finger 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
Who sent the middle finger and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🖕 means in other countries
One of the few gestures read as a straightforward, unambiguous insult almost everywhere it appears.
a blunt vulgar insult, often filtered or hidden by moderation on public platforms
ends a professional conversation on the spot, no reading required
frequently auto-flagged, blurred, or blocked outright by school and app content filters
Before you send it: Don’t send it where you wouldn’t say the words out loud; there’s no soft context for this one.
What 🖕 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the middle finger lands changes how it is taken.
Where the 🖕 Middle Finger emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the middle finger has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F595 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.
Middle Finger was approved as U+1F595 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.