Thumbs up

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Shortcode: :+1:
Shortcode: :thumbsup:
Unicode: U+1F44D
HTML: 👍
CSS: \1F44D
JavaScript: "\u{1F44D}"
URL: %F0%9F%91%8D

What 👍 means

Approval, agreement or "got it." 👍 is the quickest way to say yes, OK or nice work.

A standard reaction in work chat to confirm a message was read or a plan is fine.

Some younger users read a lone 👍 as curt or passive-aggressive. In parts of the Middle East and West Africa the gesture itself is rude.

Facts

Thumbs up 👍 is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand fingers closed. 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. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :+1: or :thumbsup:. People also look for it with words like “+1”, “good”, “hand”, or “like”.