🙅

Person Gesturing NO Emoji 🙅

Arms crossed overhead in a big X, this plays as the universal gesture for 'nope' — a hard pass, a flat refusal, or a referee calling a foul. It gets used whenever someone wants to shut an idea down without bothering to type out a whole sentence.

What 🙅 means

A shoulder-length gesture by a gender-neutral portrayal of a person with short, side-parted hair crossing both arms to make a massive 'X' on the torso.

The 🙅 Person Gesturing NO signifies a sense of disagreement, disapproval, disallowance, or warning against something. Besides, it can also refer to a gesture of self-defense or creating a physical boundary against someone or something.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you just got a text about a plan that you know for sure would not end well, send the 🙅 emoji to your buddies to indicate that you are strictly against the goof they're up to.
You can also use 🙅 in a comical way of keeping someone or something away from you; like Charlie Harper's loving reaction upon seeing his mother.
🙅 is also a great way to respond to any social media post that does not align with your values or that of most humans; like "Pineapple on pizza is heavenly". Your response - "Um 🙅🙅🙅".
Since the gesture also conveys a sense of self-defense, you can use 🙅 to defend yourself from annoying or even stupid topics spoken by your homies on chat.

Other Names

🙅 Nope
🙅 Not Happening
🙅 Stay Away
🙅 Ew
🙅 NO
🙅 No Deal
🙅 X Arms
🙅 Woman Gesturing No
🙅 Defense
🙅 Disagreement
🙅 Self-Defense
🙅 Disapproval
🙅 No Way

🙅 in real conversations

What does 🙅 mean from a girl?

A hard no, arms crossed in an X over her head — rejecting a plan, an idea, or someone's terrible take. 'Going back to him? 🙅' shuts the door completely, no further debate invited.

What does 🙅 mean from a guy?

Flat refusal, usually about a plan or an ask rather than a person: 'working Saturday? 🙅.' It's blunter than typing out an actual 'no' — the crossed arms do the shutting-down for him.

What does 🙅 mean in texting?

'Not happening,' delivered without much explanation attached. It pairs naturally with its opposite, 🙆 — one gesture rejects, the other approves, and the two often show up together in the same back-and-forth thread.

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F645
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :no_good::person_gesturing_no: Discord
Keywords: forbidden, gesture, hand, NO, not, person, prohibit

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.