Vulcan Salute Emoji
What does the Vulcan Salute emoji mean?
A raised yellow hand with a clear gap between the middle and ring fingers — the Vulcan salute, commonly used as a friendly greeting.
An emoji of a hand making a distinctive greeting: the palm is raised up, with a gap between the middle and ring fingers. The shape resembles the English letter "W" or the logo of a well-known German automaker.
This gesture was popularized by the character Spock in Star Trek and quickly caught on with fans. People use this emoji to express greetings and to wish good luck.
Also Known As
- 🖖 Spock
- 🖖 Star Trek
Apple Name
- 🖖 Hand with Fingers Split Between Middle and Ring Fingers
Unicode Name
- 🖖 Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Vulcan Salute emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🖖 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F596
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Emojipedia
- works in Slack
- works in Discord
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%96%96 |
| Punycode | xn--dz8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 96 96 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDD96 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f596 |
| CSS | \01F596 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F596} |
| Perl | \x{1F596} |
| HTML hex | 🖖 |
| HTML dec | 🖖 |
Tags: finger, hand, pock, Vulcan, vulcan salute, hands, salute
Category: People & Body
Subgroup: Open hands & waving