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👍🏻” meaning: thumbs up: light skin tone Emoji

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👍🏻Meaning and Description

Introducing the universally recognized "👍🏻" emoji, often referred to as the "Thumbs Up", "Like", or "Yes" gesture, is a symbol that embodies approval, agreement, and positivity. It displays a hand with the thumb pointed upward and other fingers folded inward. The hand symbol comes with a neutral skin tone by default, but users can choose from a range of skin-tone options.

The gesture can be traced back to ancient Rome, some sources suggest that the gesture was used to show death💀, while pressing someone's thumb down on their fist meant life. However, the meanings of these gestures have since been somehow reversed and are widely known as "OK" in the 20th Century. By the way, the first recorded positive association with the thumbs-up gesture was in 1917, in a book titled Over the Top📕 by Arthur Guy Empey.

The meaning behind the 👍🏻emoji is predominantly positive, representing approval, agreement, or encouragement. In everyday chats and social media platforms like Facebook, the thumbs up emoji is a versatile gesture emoji for expressing a wide range of sentiments. You can use it to show that you like, agree with, or support a post, picture, or comment. The thumbs up emoji can also convey encouragement or congratulation to your friends or family members who have accomplished something or shared a significant experience.
💡Extended reading and popular science

👍🏻 (thumbs up: light skin tone) = 👍 (thumbs up) + 🏻 (light skin tone)


The meaning of emoji symbol 👍🏻 is thumbs up: light skin tone, it is related to +1, hand, light skin tone, thumb, thumbs up, up, it can be found in emoji category: "👌 People & Body" - "👍 Fisted Hand".

👍🏻 is an Emoji modifier sequence, which is composed of two emojis, namely: 👍 (Emoji modifier base) and 🏻 (Emoji modifier). There are 5 types of skin tone Emoji modifiers, namely: 🏻, 🏼, 🏽, 🏾, 🏿. 👍 can be combined with these skin tone Emoji modifiers to form a new Emoji sequence, the following are examples of the combination:

👍🏻Examples and Usage

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🔸 👍🏻 = 👍 + 🏻

👍🏻Basic Information

Emoji: 👍🏻
Shortname: thumbs up: light skin tone
Codepoint: U+1F44D 1F3FB Copy
Decimal: ALT+128077 ALT+127995
Unicode Version: None
Emoji Version: 2.0 (2015-11-12)
Categories: 👌 People & Body
Sub Categories: 👍 Fisted Hand
Keywords: +1 | hand | light skin tone | thumb | thumbs up | up
Proposal: L2/07‑257, L2/09‑026, L2/14‑173

👨‍💻Unicode Information (Advanced Usage)

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👍🏻Popularity rating over time

👍🏻 Trend Chart (U+1F44D 1F3FB) - emojiall.com 100 75 50 25 0 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 👍🏻 www.emojiall.comemojiall.com
Date Range: 2019-03-10 - 2024-03-03
Update Time: 2024-03-10 17:53:36 UTC
👍🏻and in the last five years, the popularity of this emoji has undergone several large changes.In 2020 and 2021, the trend of its popularity converge.