The sign of the horns: medium skin tone is the classic “rock on” hand, but make it melanin-rich and ready for the encore. It shouts metal AF, hype levels to the ceiling, and Friday-at-5 energy—and it’s also dropped ironically after something hilariously un‑metal like finishing a spreadsheet. You’ll see it in concert recaps, gym PR brags, gaming wins, and meme replies that mean “raise the horns” or simply “\m/”.
On iOS, it’s a right hand with a medium-brown shade, shown at a slight angle with the back of the hand facing you—index and pinky up, middle and ring tucked under the thumb with smooth Apple gradients that make it look glossy and ready to headbang. Visually it’s unmistakable: two spikes, curled knuckles, tucked thumb; no extended thumb, so don’t confuse it with the ASL “I love you” sign or the shaka. Culturally, it rides in from heavy metal stages and stadium chants, and in parts of the Mediterranean it’s the “corna” (sometimes an insult), while online it usually just means “let’s rage” or “this slaps.” People also pair it with a goat emoji for GOAT jokes, or drop it as a subtle Hook ’em nod—even though the Longhorns thumb is typically extended. Flirty or dramatic? Toss it with a fire emoji to say “you’re dangerously cool,” or use it deadpan to mock faux‑edgy takes—because nothing says sarcasm like polite devil horns in a corporate chat.
The Sign of the Horns emoji combined with the Olive Toned flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the olive toned skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3441 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: | Olive Toned Sign of the Horns |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - 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) | 1f918, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F918, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129304, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x98, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 98, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 230, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD18, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd18, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56600, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F918 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F918, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129304, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F918\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x98\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD18\uD83C\uDFFD" |
