The victory hand with medium-light skin tone is the internet’s universal “peace out” and “we won” button rolled into one. It channels Churchill’s V for Victory, the ’60s peace movement, and the classic selfie pose from K-pop stages to anime conventions. You’ll see it when someone’s dipping from drama (“anyway ✌️”), celebrating a small W, or just signaling “two” without typing it. It also pops up in flirty or playful texts, especially paired with a wink or a tongue-out face—big “cute but chaotic” energy.
On Apple/iOS, the hand is rendered in a soft, 3D style with gentle shading; the medium-light skin tone reads like a warm beige. The index and middle fingers form a crisp V, palm facing forward, thumb tucking the ring and pinky against the palm—no sleeve, clean edges, tiny crease lines at the knuckles. It’s instantly recognizable from every “deuces” sign-off, goofy bunny-ears photobomb, and VSCO-girl mirror pic. Pro tip: IRL, a reversed V (palm inward) can be rude in parts of the UK, but the emoji sticks to the friendly, outward-facing version, keeping the vibe strictly peace-and-love.
The Victory Hand emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2024 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: | Light Brown Victory Hand |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - 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) | 270c, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270C, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9996, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8C, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 214, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270C, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270c, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9996, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270C 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270C, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9996, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\u270C\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270C\uD83C\uDFFC" |