People & Body · Emoji 4.0
🙅♂️Man Gesturing No Emoji
Generally, 🙅♂️ means “no” or “stop.” It’s a simple way to deny something or indicate you don't want something to happen.
The 🙅♂️ emoji is a man with his hand raised in a “no” gesture.
- Unicode
- U+1F645 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :man-
gesturing- no: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🙅♂️ Man Gesturing No emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Man Gesturing No emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F645. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Gesturing No 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
Man Gesturing No 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 :man-gesturing-no:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F645.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🙅♂️ Man Gesturing No emoji
No picker to hand? The man gesturing no can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Man Gesturing No emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man Gesturing No emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man gesturing no 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🙅♂️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🙅♂️ means in other countries
Delivers the same unambiguous “no” as the other two versions of this gesture — a clear, cross-cultural rejection.
Used to shut down a suggestion or flag something as incorrect.
Mirrors the real-life batsu cross-arm signal for “no” or a wrong answer.
Before you send it: One of the safer gesture emoji — pick whichever figure you like without the meaning shifting.
10 — Apps
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.
12 — Difference
🙅♂️ vs 🙇♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Gesturing No
Code: U+1F645 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-gesturing-no:
Generally, 🙅♂️ means “no” or “stop.”
Unicode name: Man Bowing
Code: U+1F647 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-bowing:
Generally, 🙇♂️ means “I’m sorry” or “I apologize.”
13 — History
Where the 🙅♂️ Man Gesturing No emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F645 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F 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.
Man Gesturing No was approved as U+1F645 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ