U+1F596 "🖖" Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🖖
U+1F596 "🖖" Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers is a digital representation of the Vulcan salute from the Star Trek franchise, where the hand is raised with the palm facing forward and the fingers separated into a V shape between the middle and ring fingers. This gesture was popularized by actor Leonard Nimoy, who based it on a Jewish priestly blessing hand sign, and it is commonly used in online communication to convey greetings, peace, or a reference to the sci-fi series. The character was added to the Unicode Standard in 2010 under the Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs block and is often associated with the phrase "Live long and prosper."
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F596 |
| Version Added | 7.0 |
| Name | Raised Hand with Part Between Middle and Ring Fingers |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🖖 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🖖 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x96 0x96 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDD96 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F596 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\udd96 |