Sign of the horns: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A hand making the classic 'rock-on' gesture with the index and pinky fingers extended while the middle and ring fingers are folded against the palm. This version features a medium skin tone.

Usage Context

This gesture is a universal staple in heavy metal culture, often used to signal excitement at concerts or to signify headbanging music. It is frequently sent alongside music-related icons like 🎸 or 🤘 to show support for a band or an intense track.

History

Popularized in the 1970s by heavy metal vocalists like Ronnie James Dio, the hand sign grew out of the 'malocchio' or 'evil eye' gesture common in Mediterranean cultures. It was adopted into the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of the expansion of skin-tone modifiers for human body parts.

Details

Glyph

🤘🏽

Unicode

U+1F918 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f918_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD18;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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