A thumbs-down gesture indicating disapproval, such as a negative rating, vote, or response.

The opposite of 👍 Thumbs Up (except in the context of Project Hail Mary).

As this emoji predates the introduction of skin tone modifiers in Unicode, some platforms’ early designs depicted a light-skinned hand performing the gesture. Others depicted the hand as a stylized symbol before updating it to the yellow-toned gesture broadly seen today.

Microsoft notably shows the hand from the opposite side to most other platforms.

This emoji predates the inclusion and standardization of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by SoftBank in 1997.

Thumbs Down was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name "Thumbs Down Sign" and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.