U+270C "✌" Victory Hand Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
✌
U+270C "✌" Victory Hand is a widely recognized symbol depicting a hand with the index and middle fingers extended upward in a V shape, while the other fingers are curled down. This glyph originates from the Unicode Miscellaneous Symbols block and has deep cultural associations, most commonly representing peace, victory, or a friendly sign of success. Its modern popularity surged during the 1960s as a peace symbol, and it remains frequently used in digital communication to convey positivity, triumph, or a carefree attitude.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+270C |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | Victory Hand |
| Block | Dingbats |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ✌ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ✌ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x9C 0x8C |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x270C |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0000270C |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u270c |