Vulcan salute
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- Shortcode
:vulcan_salute:- Unicode
U+1F596- HTML
🖖- CSS
\1F596- JavaScript
"\u{1F596}"- URL
%F0%9F%96%96
What ๐ means
The split-finger salute from Star Trek, which goes with "live long and prosper." ๐ is a greeting or farewell with a nerdy wink.
Sci-fi fans use it to say hello, goodbye or good luck. Others use it as a quirky wave in tech chats and fan spaces. It reads friendly and geeky, never rude.
Facts
Vulcan salute ๐ is an emoji in the people and body category, under hand fingers open. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :vulcan_salute:. People also look for it with words like โVulcanโ, โfingerโ, โhandโ, or โhandsโ.
Timeline
- 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
- 2015Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2017
2022
2024
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.