The victory hand: medium skin tone (✌🏽) is your go-to for peace, wins, and smooth exits—aka "deuces" when you’re dipping from the group chat. It signals chill vibes, small triumphs, or a friendly sign-off after a chaotic thread, and it doubles as a casual "two" when you’re ordering coffee like a pro. It’s also a photo-booth classic: the universal pose for selfies, concert snaps, and vacation pics, with a wink of retro 60s peace-and-love energy plus a dash of modern meme sarcasm. Pro tip: in the UK, the flipped V with the palm inward is rude, but the emoji shows the friendly palm-out version, so you’re safe.
On Apple/iOS, this emoji is a right hand with the index and middle fingers lifted in a clean V, palm facing outward at a slight angle. The ring and pinky are curled in, with the thumb tucking across the palm—crisp, rounded Apple shading, subtle highlights, and a warm medium-brown tone that feels smooth and dimensional. There’s no accessory or background, just the glossy, slightly 3D hand that stands out instantly in chats and captions.
Culturally, it nods to Churchill’s “V for Victory,” then grooves into 60s peace culture before hopping to K-pop/J-pop-style selfie poses you’ve seen a million times on TikTok and Instagram. People use it sincerely for small wins (nailed the presentation), playfully flirty in selfies (peace + smirk), or ironically after a mic-drop reply. It’s the emoji version of tossing on sunglasses and walking into the sunset—lighthearted, a little cheeky, and effortlessly cool.
The Victory Hand emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2495 of 2393 |
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| 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 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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270C, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9996, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8C, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 214, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270C, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270c, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9996, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270C 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270C, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9996, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\u270C\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270C\uD83C\uDFFD" |
