Middle Finger Emoji
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What does the Middle Finger emoji mean?
1
An image of the back of a hand with the middle finger extended — a widely recognized offensive gesture in Western cultures, used to express strong disapproval, disagreement, or contempt.
2
This gesture is instantly recognizable to anyone who can read: "Fuck you!" The hand is posed like the familiar smiley with the index finger raised, but here the middle finger is extended instead.
You'll see this emoji most often in heated exchanges where people argue, swear, or bicker. The raised middle finger is an insulting sign — users also send it to express their extreme disapproval of something.
Also Known As
- 🖕 Dito Medio
- 🖕 Flipping The Bird
- 🖕 Rude Finger
Apple Name
- 🖕 Middle Finger
Unicode Name
- 🖕 Reversed Hand with Middle Finger Extended
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Middle Finger emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🖕 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F595
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
- works in Github
- works in Slack, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%96%95 |
| Punycode | xn--cz8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 96 95 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDD95 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f595 |
| CSS | \01F595 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F595} |
| Perl | \x{1F595} |
| HTML hex | 🖕 |
| HTML dec | 🖕 |