The vulcan salute: dark skin tone is your sci-fi hello and wholesome blessing rolled into one iconic hand pose. It channels Spockโs legendary โLive long and prosper,โ popularized by Leonard Nimoy and inspired by a real-world priestly gesture, but now it lives rent-free in our chats. Drop it to show geek cred, Trekkie love, or a calm, logical vibe after the timeline goes full chaosโLLAP and log off. Itโs also a friendly way to say โI come in peaceโ when sliding into a thread you know is spicy.
On Apple devices, this shows a right hand in a deep brown skin tone, palm facing forward, with the middle and ring fingers split into that unmistakable V shape and the thumb extended outward. The styling is clean and glossy with soft gradients and tidy shadows, as if the hand just beamed into your screen. Even at small sizes, the V-gap reads instantlyโno caption needed. People use it sincerely for blessings and solidarity, sarcastically after dramatic group chats, or flirtatiously as a nerdy wink like, โMay we prosperโฆ together?โ
Itโs huge in fandom captions, cosplay posts, and tech Slack sign-offs after a bug squash at 2 a.m. And yes, it doubles as the humblebrag emoji for anyone who can actually do the split-finger move IRL without warming up their tendons first.
The Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1997 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: | Black Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | ๐๐ฟ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | ๐๐ฟ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🖖 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🖖 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f596, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F596, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128406, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x96, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 96 96, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 226 226, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDD96, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddd96, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56726, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F596 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F596, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128406, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F596\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x96\x96\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDD96\uD83C\uDFFF" |
