Sign of the horns: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A hand making the rock-on gesture with the index and pinky fingers extended while the middle and ring fingers are tucked into the palm, featuring a medium-dark skin tone.

Usage Context

This hand gesture is synonymous with heavy metal music, live concert culture, and general rebellious spirit. It is frequently used to signal excitement, show approval for a guitar solo, or simply convey an 'everything is cool' attitude. It is often used in the same context as 🎸 or 🔥.

History

While this gesture has deep roots in Mediterranean folk traditions to ward off bad luck, it was popularized in the music industry by Ronnie James Dio in the late 1970s. It became a global staple of rock subculture before being added to the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of the expansion of skin tone modifiers.

Details

Glyph

🤘🏾

Unicode

U+1F918 U+1F3FE

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f918_1f3fe:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD18;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-partial

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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