Vulcan salute: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A raised hand with the palm facing forward, showing a V-shaped split between the middle and ring fingers, rendered with a medium skin tone. This gesture mimics the hand shape popularized by the Star Trek franchise as a greeting.

Usage Context

Used to signal friendship, a greeting, or to show appreciation for science fiction culture. It is frequently sent alongside other space or tech-themed emojis like 🚀 or 👽 to express enthusiasm for the genre.

History

The gesture was invented by Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in the original Star Trek series, drawing inspiration from a traditional Jewish blessing. It was added to the Unicode standard in 2015 after intense fan requests to provide a way to express the iconic 'live long and prosper' sentiment in digital messages.

Details

Glyph

🖖🏽

Unicode

U+1F596 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f596_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDD96;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-open

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

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