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Vulcan salute: medium-light skin tone

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
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory hand-fingers-open
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
fingerhandhandssalutevulcanstar trekspocklive long and prospersci-figesturegreeting

Google Noto License

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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