Vulcan salute: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A hand held in the classic Vulcan salute, with the palm facing forward and the fingers parted between the middle and ring fingers. This version features a medium-light skin tone.

Usage Context

Used to express the iconic 'Live long and prosper' greeting popularized by science fiction media. It serves as a geek-culture nod in digital conversations, often replacing standard hand gestures like 👋 or ✌️ to show fan status or camaraderie.

History

The hand gesture was famously created by Leonard Nimoy for his role as Spock in the original 'Star Trek' series, inspired by a traditional Jewish blessing. The emoji itself was added to the Unicode standard in 2015 alongside the skin tone modifier system to allow for greater diversity in representative hand signs.

Details

Glyph

🖖🏼

Unicode

U+1F596 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f596_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD96;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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