🙅‍♂️

Man Gesturing NO Emoji 🙅‍♂️

What 🙅‍♂️ means

A man crosses his arms into a big X from the chest up, signaling disapproval. This emoji signifies disagreement and a sense of being against something or someone.

Although the 🙅‍♂️ Man Gesturing NO emoji can suggest dislike and a warning against something, it can also refer to a gesture of self-defense. This emoji is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you just read a text or saw a post sent by someone who likes what they sent but you don't, send the 🙅‍♂️ emoji to indicate a strict sense of dislike towards the rubbish they sent you.
You could also use 🙅‍♂️ to show that you don't like a post on social media.
If you're posting something that's ridiculously ironic, you can use 🙅‍♂️ in the caption.
🙅‍♂️ can also be used to defend yourself from a textual discussion of any sort; like "Nope. I'm not in 🙅‍♂️". (self-defense, you see).
If you're a parent, and your kids are asking you permission for something you know would wreck someone's peace of mind for sure, you can use 🙅‍♂️ as a simple way of saying "Not happening, kiddo. Nice try".

Other Names

🙅‍♂️ Nope
🙅‍♂️ Never
🙅‍♂️ Not Happening
🙅‍♂️ Don't Even Try
🙅‍♂️ Disagreement
🙅‍♂️ Disapproval
🙅‍♂️ Self-Defense
🙅‍♂️ Disallowance
🙅‍♂️ Dislike
🙅‍♂️ No Deal
🙅‍♂️ Nah
🙅‍♂️ No Way

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F645 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 4.0
Shortcodes: :man-gesturing-no: Slack:man_gesturing_no: Discord
Keywords: forbidden, gesture, hand, man, NO, not, prohibit
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.