The "vulcan salute: medium skin tone" throws up the iconic split-finger sign that says, in pure sciโfi fashion, "Live long and prosper." In chats it doubles as a nerdy hello, a dignified goodbye, or a classy way to say "peace, but make it logical." People drop it with LLAP, after a hot take as a sarcastic mic-drop, or as a wink to fellow Trekkies in comment sections and cosplay photo dumps. It can even read flirtatious if your crush also speaks fluent Star Trekโcall it geek-to-geek chemistry. IRL it's the gesture Spock made famous, and online it's become shorthand for calm respect, brainy approval, and slightly smug wisdom.
On Apple/iOS, it's a right hand facing forward in a gentle three-quarter angle, thumb extended, middle and ring fingers crisply parted to form that clean V. This variant shows a warm medium-brown skin tone with soft gradients and rounded fingertipsโno sleeve, just a smooth, glossy Apple finish and subtle palm creases. The strong silhouette and split between the middle fingers make it instantly recognizable even at tiny sizes. It's perfect for reaction posts, science class memes, and that friend who says "fascinating" unironically. Cultural footnote: Leonard Nimoy popularized the salute on Star Trek, adapting it from a traditional Jewish blessing gestureโhence the sacred-meets-space vibe. Translation for modern texting: "all respect," "no hard feelings," "I come in peace," or "I'm out, stay logical."
The Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3474 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Olive Toned Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ฝ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ฝ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🖖 🏽 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🖖 🏽 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f596, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F596, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128406, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x96, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 96, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 226, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD96, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd96, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56726, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F596 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F596, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128406, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F596\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x96\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD96\uD83C\uDFFD" |
