🖕 Middle Finger

The 🖕 Middle Finger emoji belongs to the pointing gestures, filed by Unicode under People & Body. It usually appears in messages about finger, hand and middle.

You can drop 🖕 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Gestures and Hands. Added in 2015 with Emoji 1.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1F595. The emoji also comes in 5 skin tone variants, listed in the sidebar.

• 🖕 works as a one-character reply when finger is the subject.
• Fits messages about finger, hand and middle.
• Often seen near 👆🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone, 👆 Backhand Index Pointing up and 🖕🏻 Middle Finger: Light Skin Tone.

The raised middle finger is among the oldest documented gestures: it appears in fourth-century BC Athens as the katapygon, and the Romans called it the digitus impudicus, the shameless finger.

In Germany, showing it in traffic can be prosecuted as an insult under § 185 of the criminal code and regularly draws four-figure fines. Sent as an emoji it remains legally relevant too – courts have confirmed this more than once.

• 🖕🫵 – Middle Finger and Index Pointing at the Viewer
• 🖕👆 – Middle Finger with Backhand Index Pointing up
• 🖕👈 – Middle Finger plus Backhand Index Pointing Left
• 🖕👉 – Middle Finger and Backhand Index Pointing Right
• 🖕☝️ – Middle Finger with Index Pointing up
• 🖕👇 – Middle Finger plus Backhand Index Pointing Down

Easy to mix up with 👆🏻 Backhand Index Pointing Up: Light Skin Tone, 👆 Backhand Index Pointing up or 🖕🏻 Middle Finger: Light Skin Tone. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.