Vulcan salute: light skin tone Emoji

People

A raised hand with the palm facing forward, showing the fingers parted between the middle and ring fingers in a V-shape. This specific version features a light skin tone.

Usage Context

Used to express the iconic greeting from science fiction, signifying 'live long and prosper.' It serves as a geeky way to signal friendship, peace, or shared enthusiasm for space-faring franchises. It is frequently sent alongside the 🚀 or 👽 emojis to lean into the sci-fi theme.

History

Based on the hand gesture popularized by Leonard Nimoy as Spock in the original Star Trek series, this emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2014. It was inspired by traditional Jewish blessings, though it gained worldwide fame through its association with Vulcan culture.

Details

Glyph

🖖🏻

Unicode

U+1F596 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f596_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD96;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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