Shady Characters advent calendar 2025: THUMBS UP

👍 THUMBS UP, aka Unicode code point 0x1F44D . If the onsen emoji (♨️) and the hamburger (🍔) show us the nuts and bolts of how emoji work, THUMBS UP (👍) shows us how we, emoji’s users, put our own stamp on them. That’s because ‘👍’ is a chameleon and a provocateur, with meanings that can vary widely depending on how old you are and where you use it. Read more &rarr;