vulcan salute

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The Vulcan salute emoji is the iconic split‑finger greeting made famous by Star Trek’s Mr. Spock. It reads as “Live long and prosper,” a brainy blessing Leonard Nimoy adapted from a Jewish priestly gesture. Online, it’s nerd pride meets polite peace‑out with a sci‑fi flourish. People drop it to sign off, to react to airtight logic, or to quietly acknowledge a fellow geek in the wild.

On Apple/iOS, it’s a bright‑yellow right hand with the palm facing you, middle and ring fingers cleanly split into a V, the thumb sticking out, rendered with soft gradients and a crisp silhouette—instantly the “Spock hand.” In chats, it swings from sincere well‑wishing to playful “LLAP” to sarcastic “peace but smarter” after a mic‑drop. Meme‑wise, you’ll see it under galaxy‑brain takes, cosplay selfies, Zoom farewells, and “no handshakes today” posts. It doubles as awkward humor for folks who physically can’t do the split, yet their keyboard can. Bonus: it even works as flirty nerd energy—“You had me at warp speed, 🖖.”

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 8.3 update.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	297 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	:vulcan:
Keywords
Previous Names:	Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range	1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory	Gesture Symbols

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 8 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)	🖖
UTF-8 Character Count	1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)	🖖
Decimal HTML Entity	🖖
Hexadecimal HTML Entity	🖖
Hex Code Point(s)	1f596
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F596
Decimal Code Point(s)	128406
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x96
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 96 96
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 226 226
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDD96
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddd96
UTF-16 Dec	55357 56726
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F596
UTF-32 Hex	01F596
UTF-32 Dec	128406
Python Src	u"\U0001F596"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x96\x96"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDD96"