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Sign of the horns: dark skin tone

Sign of the horns: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand making the classic 'rock-on' gesture, featuring a dark skin tone, with the index finger and pinky extended while the middle and ring fingers are tucked against the thumb. This hand sign is universally recognized as a salute to heavy metal and hard rock music.

Usage Context

Widely used by music fans to express excitement at concerts or to show appreciation for a killer guitar riff. Beyond music, it serves as an enthusiastic sign of agreement, approval, or general 'badass' energy. It is often used in tandem with the 🤘 emoji or music-themed icons like 🎸 or 🔥.

History

While the gesture has long been used in various cultures for protection or warding off evil, it was popularized in global pop culture during the late 1970s and 80s by heavy metal vocalists like Ronnie James Dio. It became a permanent fixture of metal subculture before moving into digital communication with the inclusion of skin tone modifiers in Unicode 8.0 in 2015.

Details

Glyph
🤘🏿
Unicode
U+1F918 U+1F3FF
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f918_1f3ff:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-partial
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
fingerhandhornsrock-onsignmetalheavy metalmusicconcertrock and rolldark skin tone

Google Noto License

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