🤘Sign Of The Horns Emoji

The sign of the horns emoji 🤘 carries the codepoint U+1F918 and has been in the standard since Emoji 1.0 (2015). It belongs to People & Body → Hand Signs.

What 🤘 sign of the horns means

Gestures that carry a lot of regional baggage. ✌️ and 🤞 are broadly understood; 🤌, added in 2020, is read almost everywhere as the Italian bunched-fingers gesture; 🫰, added in 2021, is the Korean finger heart popularized by K-pop. 👌 stays useful in most contexts but has been co-opted as a troll symbol, so it can land badly.

Unicode tags this one finger, hand and horns and files it under People & Body → Hand Signs.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F918`
HTML hex	`🤘`
HTML decimal	`🤘`
CSS	`\1F918`
JavaScript	`\u{1F918}`
Python	`\U0001F918`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDD18`
Rust	`\u{1f918}`
Swift	`\u{1F918}`
PHP	`\u{1F918}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A4%98`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A4 98`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DD18`
Base64	`8J+kmA==`
Decimal	`129304`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Skin-tone variants

The 🤘 emoji supports all five Fitzpatrick skin-tone modifiers. Click any variant to copy it.

Keywords

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How to type 🤘

Windows — press Win + . and search “sign of the horns”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “finger”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f918 and Enter.
HTML — paste 🤘.

How 🤘 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🤘Apple
🤘Segoe
🤘Noto
🤘System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🤘 sign of the horns emoji mean?+

🤘 is the sign of the horns emoji, tagged finger, hand and horns. Gestures that carry a lot of regional baggage. ✌️ and 🤞 are broadly understood; 🤌, added in 2020, is read almost everywhere as the Italian bunched-fingers gesture; 🫰, added in 2021, is the Korean finger heart popularized by K-pop. 👌 stays useful in most contexts but has been co-opted as a troll symbol, so it can land badly.

What is the Unicode code for 🤘?+

sign of the horns is U+1F918. In HTML that is 🤘, in CSS \1F918, and in JavaScript \u{1F918}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🤘 emoji added?+

sign of the horns got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤘 sign of the horns.