Person gesturing NO
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- Shortcode
:no_good:- Shortcode
:person_gesturing_no:- Unicode
U+1F645- HTML
🙅- CSS
\1F645- JavaScript
"\u{1F645}"- URL
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What ๐ means
A person with arms crossed in a big X. ๐ means no, stop, or absolutely not.
It turns down an invite, vetoes an idea or marks something as off-limits: "pineapple on pizza ๐ ." The pose is dramatic, so the refusal feels playful even when it is firm.
The crossed-arms X comes from Japanese body language, where it means "wrong" or "not allowed."
Facts
Person gesturing NO ๐ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person gesture. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :no_good: or :person_gesturing_no:. People also look for it with words like โNOโ, โforbiddenโ, โgestureโ, or โhandโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
- 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)
- 20162 new emoji built from it (Emoji 4.0)๐ โโ๏ธ๐ โโ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2019
2020
2025
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
2018
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.