The sign of the horns: light skin tone is the emoji equivalent of a power chord—instant hype, instant attitude. It shouts “rock on,” “LET’S GOOO,” or “absolute unit of a vibe” when you crush a workout, nail a presentation, or the espresso finally hits. People toss it into concert posts, gym PR brags, gaming wins, and Friday energy texts like confetti. It also works ironically—drop it after parallel parking perfectly or surviving a meeting that should’ve been an email. Paired with fire, skull, or guitar emojis, it reads as chaotic-good energy; paired alone, it’s a short, loud cheer. It can be a flirty compliment too: “You’re a rockstar” with horns feels bolder than a plain thumbs-up.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand, palm facing forward, index and pinky raised, middle and ring curled and held down by a tucked thumb; with the light skin modifier, the hand shows a soft peach tone with glossy gradients and a slight three-quarter tilt—no sleeve, clean edges, very emoji-core. Visually, the two-point “horns” are the star, making it instantly recognizable in tiny captions and Story stickers. Culturally, the gesture is tied to heavy metal (famously popularized by Ronnie James Dio) and shows up at festivals, mosh pits, and guitar-solo reaction memes. In Texas sports it doubles as “Hook ’em” for Longhorns fans, while in parts of Italy and the Mediterranean it can mean warding off the evil eye—or be rude if pointed at someone. Online, it’s the go-to for announcing tour drops, sharing festival fits, or punctuating a spicy take with a wink of rebellion. Not to be confused with the “call me” hand or the “love-you” ASL sign; this one’s pure riff energy.
The Sign of the Horns emoji combined with the White flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the white skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2025 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 | |
| Keywords | |
| Previous Names: | White Sign of the Horns |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤘🏻 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤘🏻 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤘 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤘 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f918, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F918, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129304, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x98, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 98, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 230, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD18, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd18, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56600, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F918 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F918, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129304, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F918\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x98\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD18\uD83C\uDFFB" |
