🖕️ Middle finger emoji

The middle finger emoji means anger, insult, defiance, or rude rejection. It is intentionally offensive in many places, so it fits only very casual or clearly joking contexts.

Use 🖕 carefully when showing frustration, sarcasm, or a strong no. For milder disapproval, 👎 Thumbs down is usually clearer and less aggressive, while ✊ Raised fist can show resistance without the insult.

Could also be called rude finger, flip off, offensive gesture or middle finger salute emoji.

Other meanings

rude gesture, insult, anger, defiance, frustration, offensive hand sign

Example Usage

That scam email gets a hard no 🖕

Variants

Related emoji

Hand gestures emojis

• 👋️ Waving hand
• 🤚️ Raised back of hand
• 🖐️ Hand with fingers splayed
• ✋️ Raised hand

Visual description

On iOS, a yellow hand faces forward with the middle finger raised and the other fingers folded down.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.