The sign of the horns: medium-light skin tone is your digital backstage pass to pure rock energy—perfect for “LET’S GOOOO,” guitar-solo moments, or ironically hyping something wildly un-metal like doing taxes. It shouts rock ’n’ roll, festival season, and mosh-pit mayhem, but it also doubles as a cheeky way to say “I’m feeling rebellious” or “badass mode: on.” People drop it in captions after PRs at the gym, after landing a promotion, or when the coffee finally hits. It’s also a classic move for sarcastic drama: “Just microwaved leftovers—horns up.”
On Apple/iOS, this emoji is a palm-forward hand with the index and pinky raised, middle and ring folded down, and the thumb tucked across—clean, rounded shading and a soft, glossy highlight make it pop. The medium-light skin tone shows as a warm, peachy beige gradient with subtle knuckle shadows, and the hand is slightly tilted so the iconic silhouette is instantly readable. Culturally, it’s tied to heavy metal (popularized in that scene by Ronnie James Dio), game-day hype, and even the University of Texas “Hook ’em Horns” crowd. Pro-tip: it’s not the ASL “I love you” sign—no thumb out here—so when you send it, you’re channeling rock, not romance… unless you’re flirting with “rockstar energy,” in which case, carry on.
The Sign of the Horns emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3440 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Light Brown Sign of the Horns |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 1f918, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F918, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129304, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x98, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 98, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 230, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD18, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd18, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56600, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F918 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F918, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129304, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F918\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x98\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD18\uD83C\uDFFC" |
