The sign of the horns: dark skin tone brings pure rock-concert energy to your texts—index and pinky up, middle and ring tucked under the thumb, all attitude. It shouts “rock on,” “this goes hard,” and “I’m hyped,” whether you’re actually at a metal show or just nailed your Monday. Culturally, it’s the classic heavy metal salute, a good-luck “corna” in parts of the Mediterranean (context matters), and famously doubles as the “Hook ’em Horns” gesture for Texas Longhorns fans. Online, it swings from sincere hype to cheeky sarcasm—perfect after a face-melting guitar solo or, you know, when your microwave pizza rolls “go hard, actually.”
On Apple/iOS, it’s a realistic right hand in a deep brown gradient, palm facing forward at a slight angle, with the thumb pinning the middle and ring fingers—clean edges, soft 3D shading, and no sleeve. A quick visual tell: the thumb is tucked in, unlike the I Love You hand sign emoji, so you won’t accidentally confess love when you meant “LOUD NOISES.” It pairs beautifully with m/ (the old-school text horns), concert selfies, and captions that read “volume up.” People also drop it flirtatiously for that playful, rock-star vibe or ironically to bless the most un-metal of moments—like crushing spreadsheets with headbanger focus.
The Sign of the Horns emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2497 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 | |
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| Previous Names: | Black 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, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F918, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129304, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x98, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 98, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 230, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD18, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd18, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56600, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F918 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F918, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129304, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F918\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x98\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD18\uD83C\uDFFF" |
