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👍 Thumbs Up Emoji

A classic thumb gesture for agreement, approval, confirmation, praise, or saying 'sounds good.'

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Thumbs Up
Category
People & Body
Subcategory
Hand Fingers Closed
Unicode
U+1F44D
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The thumbs up emoji communicates approval, agreement, confirmation, or encouragement. It works well for quick acknowledgements, confirming plans, or thanking someone in casual and workplace chats.

Context note

In some contexts a lone thumbs up can feel brief or curt. Adding a short phrase makes the reply warmer.

Quick Meaning

A classic thumb gesture for agreement, approval, confirmation, praise, or saying 'sounds good.'

Use Cases

How People Use 👍

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Confirm a time, plan, or decision quickly

Confirm a time, plan, or decision quickly.

Acknowledge a completed task or message

Acknowledge a completed task or message.

Give friendly encouragement or praise

Give friendly encouragement or praise.

Send a quick 'yes' or 'understood' signal

Send a quick 'yes' or 'understood' signal.

Real Messages

👍 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 👍.

“Sounds good, see you at three 👍”

“Great job on finishing the sprint on time 👍”

“Everything is confirmed for tomorrow 👍”

Lookup Data

Names, Keywords and Search Terms

Search terms, common aliases, and lookup keywords.

Official Name

Thumbs Up

Subcategory: Hand Fingers Closed

Aliases & Common Names

  • thumb up

Keywords & Search Terms

  • thumbs up
  • agree
  • approve
  • ok
  • yes
  • confirm
  • good
  • like
Developer Reference

👍 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F44D
Code points
U+1F44D
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x8D
UTF-16
\uD83D\uDC4D
HTML decimal entity
👍
HTML hexadecimal entity
👍
JavaScript escape
\u{1F44D}
CSS escape
\1F44D
Python string
\U0001F44D
Variations

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Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Thumbs Up emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Thumbs Up emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Thumbs Up emoji in OpenMoji style

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A classic thumb gesture for agreement, approval, confirmation, praise, or saying 'sounds good.'