Nerd-chic greeting unlocked: the Vulcan salute is Mr. Spockโs iconic way of saying "Live long and prosper," now with a light skin tone glow-up. Itโs the internetโs polite, slightly geeky waveโperfect for sign-offs in Slack, Zoom goodbyes, convention selfies, or whenever a simple hi/bye needs sciโfi swagger. People use it sincerely to wish good vibes and success, or ironically when something very much did not prosper (see: burnt dinner, failed push to main, crypto). It also shows up as a touchless, germ-safe handshake replacement, and occasionally as playful, brainy flirting: "LL&P, cutie." Bonus meme energy: sending it when you personally cannot split your fingers like that IRL.
The Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2189 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture | ![]() |
| Google Android Picture | ![]() |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
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| Previous Names: | White Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ป |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ป |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🖖 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🖖 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f596, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F596, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128406, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x96, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 96, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 226, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD96, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd96, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56726, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F596 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F596, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128406, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F596\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x96\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD96\uD83C\uDFFB" |