The victory hand: dark skin tone (✌🏿) is your all-purpose “peace out,” “we won,” and “ok I’m dipping” gesture rolled into one smooth sign. People drop it in chats after a small W, when wrapping a convo with good vibes, or as a breezy “deuces” to soften a hot take. It pops up in selfies like it’s 2007 MySpace again, in K‑pop photo dumps, and under thirst-trap captions as a playful, low-effort mic drop. Used sarcastically, it says “no hard feelings” right after you absolutely pulverize someone with facts. Flirtier folks will pair it with a wink or a sly caption—friendly but not too thirsty.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a right hand with the palm facing forward, index and middle fingers raised in a crisp V, the thumb resting across the curled ring and pinky. The dark skin tone shows a deep cocoa-to-espresso gradient with soft 3D shading, rounded fingertips, and no visible fingernails—clean, glossy, and slightly angled like a quick snapshot. Culturally, it’s the V for Victory made iconic by Churchill and the peace sign that fueled ’60s counterculture, so it carries both triumph and chill. In some places the inward-facing V is rude, but this emoji is palm-out, so you’re safe to send it to your boss, your group chat, or your hype squad.
The Victory Hand emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3437 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: | Black Victory Hand |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
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| 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+270C, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 9996, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8C, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | E2 9C 8C, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 342 234 214, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x270C, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | 270c, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 9996, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0000270C 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 270C, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 9996, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\u270C\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xe2\x9c\x8c\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\u270C\uD83C\uDFFF" |
