Man gesturing NO

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Shortcode
:ng_man:
Shortcode
:no_good_man:
Unicode
U+1F645 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
HTML
🙅‍♂️
CSS
\1F645\200D\2642\FE0F
JavaScript
"\u{1F645}\u{200D}\u{2642}\u{FE0F}"
URL
%F0%9F%99%85%E2%80%8D%E2%99%82%EF%B8%8F

NOforbiddengesturehandmannotprohibit

What ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ means

A man forming an X with his arms. ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ is a hard "no way" from a man's point of view.

Men send it to refuse plans, reject food they hate, or veto a bad idea from the group chat. It reads as a firm no with a hint of humor, like a referee waving off a goal.

Facts

Man gesturing NO ๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. It is a sequence that joins ๐Ÿ™… person gesturing NO and โ™‚๏ธ male sign. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :ng_man: or :no_good_man:. People also look for it with words like โ€œNOโ€, โ€œforbiddenโ€, โ€œgestureโ€, or โ€œhandโ€.

Made of

๐Ÿ™…+โ™‚๏ธ=๐Ÿ™…โ€โ™‚๏ธ

Timeline

  1. 2016Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 4.0)
  2. 2016Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 4.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. man gesturing NO, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  2. man gesturing NO, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  3. man gesturing NO, Google (Noto) design from 20252025

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. man gesturing NO, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016
  2. man gesturing NO, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20182018

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body ยท Emoji 4.0