The victory hand: medium-dark skin tone is the internet’s universal way to say peace, victory, or the classic “deuces” when you’re dipping out of the chat. It swings between wholesome and cheeky: used for good vibes, humble brags, or that I-just-closed-all-my-tabs triumph. People also drop it to mean the number two—two tickets, two minutes, two more episodes (obviously). Bonus: it reads flirty or playful in selfies, especially paired with a wink or a pout.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing palm with the index and middle fingers raised in a crisp V, ring and pinky tucked, and the thumb angled across the folded fingers. The medium-dark skin tone shows smooth gradients and soft highlights, giving it a rounded, slightly 3D feel—warm brown at the center, richer shading near the edges and knuckles. No sleeve, clean silhouette, instantly recognizable even at tiny sizes.
Culturally, it nods to Churchill’s WWII “V for Victory” and the 60s peace movement, then fast-forwards to selfies, concerts, and “peace out ✌🏾” captions. Online, it can be sincere (“we’re good”), sarcastic (“peace and blessings… blocked”), or dramatic exit energy after a spicy take. It pops up in K-pop fan pics and throwback MySpace/VSCO poses, where the peace sign plus duck-face was practically a uniform. Use it to celebrate, to soft-launch your exit, or to keep the mood chill when the group chat gets chaotic.
The Victory Hand emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3436 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: | Deeper 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270C, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9996, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8C, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 214, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270C, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270c, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9996, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270C 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270C, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9996, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\u270C\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270C\uD83C\uDFFE" |
